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MIUTARY HISTORY 

OF 

WATERVILLE, MAINE, 

INCLUDING the: NAMKS AND RECORD. SO FAR AS KNOWN, OF 
ALT. SOLDIERS FROM WATERN'ILLE, IN THE 

SEVERAL WARS OF THE REPUBLIC; 

A PORTION OF THE RECORDS OF THE 

WATERVILLE MONUMENT ASSOCIATION, 

AND A SKETCH OF 

W. S. HEATH POST, No. 14, G. A. R. 

BY 

BREVET BRIG. GENERAL ISAAC S. BANGS. 



AUGUSTA 

KENNEBEC JOURNAL PRINT 
1902 



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THE MILITARY HISTORY OF WATERVILLE. 

Its record in the Revolution — the War of 1812 — Tlie Aroostook War — 
the Mexican, Spanish and Philippine Wars, with rosters of soldiers 
who have served in each, military records, etc. — also sketch of the 
Waterville Soldiers' Monument Association and of W. S. Heath Post, 
•No. 14, Department of Maine, G. A. R. 

By Bren'ET Eric. General Isaac Sparrow Bangs. 

Of all the magnificent pageants this country has ever seen, 
from its settlement to the present year, none in point of interest 
can compare to the grand review of the armies of the Union on 
May 23 and 24, 1865. 

The most catiseless, cruel, bloody war in the world's history 
had just been brought to a triumphant close by the surrender of 
the army of Northern Virginia, under General Robert E. Lee, to 
General Grant, at Appomattox, April 9th, and the surrender of 
Johnston's and all confederate armies east of the Mississippi by 
the military convention of April 26th. 

The identical flag that was lowered from the flagstaff of Fort 
Sumter by Major Robert Anderson April 14, 1861, was floating 
over Fort vSumter again, having been raised by Brevet Major 
General Robert Anderson on the 14th of April, 1865 • the fourth 
anniversary to commemorate in the most fitting manner the 
restoration of national authority on the spot where the great 
rebellion was first inaugurated. 

On the evening of that same day, President Lincoln had fallen 
a victim to the hate engendered by the war, by the bullet of John 
Wilkes Booth, at Ford's theatre in Washington. 

May i8th, by Special Orders No. 239, war department, adju- 
tant general's office, a grand review by General Grant, President 
Johnson and cabinet, was ordered of all the armies then near 
Washington ; to take place May 23rd and 24th. These great 
armies had bivouacked in the streets of the capital the previous 
night, and when the hour arrived, the army of the Potomac led 
the way around the capitol, down Pennsylvania avenue, out past 



4 WATERVILLK IN THE WAR. 

the reviewing stand at the White House ; passing for the last 
time as regimental organizations before their beloved com- 
mander. 

With tattered flags, faded uniforms, marks of battle and 
exposure ; but keen-eyed, alert, bronzed, they swung along with 
elastic stride in close column by division ; cheered by thousands 
who gloried in their loyalty, their victories and final triumph. 

These were the men of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, 
the Wilderness and Spottsylvania, whose undaunted courage had 
stood between their country and ruin, between their flag and dis- 
honor, for four long years ; — the men whose exultant faces were 
set toward home. 

The 24th brought Sherman's splendid army, who in a cam- 
paign of two thousand miles of marching and fighting had cut 
the confederacy in twain, and joined Grant at the Nation's cap- 
ital. Sixty-five thousand bronzed veterans who had won each 
a blazonry for his "shield without device" at Chattanooga, Dal- 
ton, Resaca, Kenesaw, or Atlanta, — in the army of the Tennessee 
under Howard, — in the army of Georgia under Slocum, — in the 
army of the Ohio under Schofield, or in the cavalry division with 
Kilpatrick. 

For two entire days these marching hosts filled Washington's 
streets ; serried ranks of glistening steel with touches of color in 
the tattered flags they had carried for four long years and loved 
so well ; martial music, songs, shouts of welcome, and ringing 
cheers filled the air with sound ; while the hearts of the welcom- 
ing thousands were overflowing with gladness that peace had 
come at last and "come to stay." 

The effect of this moving military pageant must be lost, except 
as an historical incident, to the generation born since the war ; 
but to those then living it bore tremendous significance. No one 
can ever know, who was not then living, the tumultuous joy of 
the people over the close of the war and the return of the men 
who had saved the country. 

It may well be asked by those who do not know : "If the War 
of the Rebellion ended with so much rejoicing, by what fanfare 
was it inaugurated?" 

We will turn back the pages of history for four years and stand 
in the streets of the village of Waterville, the embryo city of 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 5 

to-day, just forty-one years ago. It is not the purpose of this 
article to describe the physical changes that man and "God hath 
wrought." Indeed, these have been so insidious, so gradual, and 
at the same time so radical, that old things have become new. 
Even the people are new ! One wonders where the old buildings 
are, since one misses them, — and the old faces; just like any 
child who puzzles his wits to know where all the moons go. 

It is impossible not to remember that the enduring quality of 
its buildings was then represented by a few unpretentious brick 
stores: the Ticonic row, Getchell block, the Noyes( Phoenix) 
block, the Boutelle, the Morrill, and the one " where David 
Webb traded," and just replaced by the Flood block. As for the 
others, they were more or less pretentious frames, and have been 
moved — no one can remember zvhen or Jwrv, and handsome brick 
blocks fill their places. The old stores can be found out on back 
streets metamorphosed into dwellings with front piazzas, bow 
windows, and new paint, — "spruced up" like a widower v/ith a 
second wife. 

The popular resorts in the late 50s and the 60s were "the hard- 
ware store." John Caffrey's, and the gymnasium, which stood on 
the site of the post office block. At the gymnasium, the evening 
classes were popular and comprised representative men of the 
town ; life-long friends who had "Lived and loved together 
through many a changing year," and stood shoulder to shoulder 
in support of the government and in sympathy with the soldier, 
through all the weary days of the tedious months, of the terrible 
years of the war. Among these were Edwin Noyes, Dr. Bou- 
telle, Charles M. Morse, Jones Elden, Nathaniel and John 
Meader, C. R. McFadden, John and William Caffrey, W. B. 
Arnold, Joshua Nye, George Robinson, G. A. Phillips, J. P. Hill, 
William Blunt, A. A. Plaisted, Simeon Keith, E. G. Meader and 
I. S. Bangs ; names to conjure wath ; of men who controlled pub- 
lic sentiment and stood for law and order always and every- 
where. 

A history of "Waterville in the war" would be incomplete 
without mentioning a few of the prominent older men : 

Hon. D. L. Milliken, Gen. Franklin vSmith, F. D. Haviland, 
Major Samuel Appleton, Dr. D. N. Sheldon, Dr. J. T. Champlin, 
John Ware, Julius Alden, William and Walter Getchell, R. B. 



6 WATERVILLE IN THE WAR, 

Dunn, John Webber, Prof. George Keeley, — noble men of wise 
counsels and great hearts, whose waking thoughts when conflict 
was joined, were always with our armies ; whose "purse and 
pen" sustained the government and encouraged the leaders to 
final victory and peace. 

The years in which these men lived and wrought have gone 
where the roses go ; many have crossed the river, but the influ- 
ence of their lives and their loyalty in "the times that tried men's 
souls/' has left a fragrant memory with those that knew them. 

As for the questions the solution of which was so important 
to the great Republic of to-day, it may be said : God wrought 
them out in his own way, in his own appointed time, through the 
Civil War, and they were settled forever. 

The first rebel gun fired at Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861, roused 
all the latent patriotism of the North, united all parties or, better, 
obliterated all parties, and when the President's call of April 15th 
for 75,000 men was flashed over the wires, the enthusiasm was 
so great that a million men would have offered their services if 
required, and they could have been armed and fed. 

In Waterville a recruiting office was opened in the office of 
Joshua Nye, then treasurer of the old Androscoggin and Ken- 
nebec Railroad Company, on the second floor of the Hanscom 
block, corner of Elm and Main streets, on the morning of April 
i6th, the day following the call of President Lincoln. 

Charles A. Henrickson, then an undergraduate at Waterville 
College, was the first to sign the roll as a volunteer from Water- 
ville, and his patriotic zeal and his exaltation as a new volunteer 
proved so irresistibly contagious at the college that the classes 
and recitations were broken up. Finally, to save the classes, 
the president and faculty voted to close the college temporarily. 

Another recruiting office was opened on the second floor of 
the Plaisted building, which now stands on Charles street. This 
was in charge of William S. Heath, his brother Frank E. Heath, 
and J. H. Plaisted, who were the first to volunteer there, and each 
arrived at distinction in the service. 

In a few days the companies were filled and began squad and 
company drill in our streets ; were soon ordered to Augusta into 
camp, and on June 4th were mustered into the service of the 
United States as Companies G and H of the Third Maine Infan- 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 7 

try Volunteers. Company G was commanded by Frank S. Hes- 
seltine, with Nathaniel Hanscom 1st lieutenant and William A. 
Hatch 2nd lieutenant. Company H was commanded by W. S 
Heath, with F. E. Heath as ist lieutenant and John R. Day as 
2nd lieutenant. 

O. O. Howard was appointed colonel of the regiment, and on 
the 5th of June he was ordered to Washington with his com- 
mand, carrying with him, as Waterville's first contingent, 
seventy-four of her boys into the maelstrom of war. 

Meantime, apprehending the embarrassment under which the 
general government would labor to defend itself against the 
organized rebellion of the South, the legislature of Maine, at an 
extra session called to consider and provide for the exigencies of 
the hour, determined to furnish the government at the earliest 
moment with ten regiments fully armed and equipped, from the 
enrolled but unarmed militia of 60,000 men, to serve for two 
years. This act was passed and approved April 25th. 

How the men who voted for this measure expected to arm and 
equip these men, tJicy never knew, but they did know it must be 
done. 

Thus the regiments from the ist to the loth inclusive were 
organized by this act of the legislature, and all succeeding organ- 
izations by the general government or by its authority. 

It must be borne in mind that the ist Regiment Maine Infantry 
had been mustered into service for three months at Portland 
May 4th, and the 2nd Regiment Maine Infantry mustered at 
Bangor May 28th, and both sent at once to the front. 

The 3rd was mustered June 5th: the 4th June 15th; the 5th 
June 24th : the 6th July T5th ; the 7th August 21st ; the 8th Sep- 
tember /th ; the 9th September 22nd ; the loth October 4th ; the 
nth November 4th; the 12th November 15th; the 13th Novem- 
ber 20th; the 14th December nth; the 15th December 17th; the 
first cavalry October iQth, and six batteries ; making with five 
companies of sharpshooters and coast guards*, 16,669 men; and 
of this number Waterville furnished 121 in 1861. 

Waterville College furnished from its alumni and undergrad- 
uate classes the following list of patriotic young men for Com- 

*The U. S. Government creaited tlie State of Maine with 18,875 for the year 1861. 



8 WATERVTLLE IN THE WAR. 

pany G, 3rd Maine: Charles A. Henrickson, class of 1864; 
William E. Brown, class of 1864; George H. Bassett, class of 
1864, died in service; Atwood Crosby, class of 1864; Moses W. 
Young, class of 1864; E. P. Stearns, class of 1864, died in ser- 
vice; Frank S. Hesseltine, class of 1863; A. C. Hinds, class of 
1863, died in service ; Samuel Hamblen, class of 1862 ; Amasa 
Bigelow, Jr., class of 1862 ; J. A. Philbrook, class of 1862 ; Wil- 
liam A. Hatch, class of 1861. 

For Company H, 3rd Maine: W. S. Heath, class of 1855, 
killed in battle ; Francis E. Heath, class of 1858. 

These companies received their baptism of fire at Bull Run, 
July 21, 1 861, and of the above-named, C. A. Henrickson and 
Atwood Crosby were taken prisoners there ; the latter a voluntary 
one to care for his brother who was shot through the lungs.* 

David Bates was mortally wounded, taken prisoner and died 
at Richmond, Va., the first Waterville soldier killed ; and a num- 
ber of the Waterville contingent were wounded and captured. 

During the year the following changes were made in the line 
and non-commissioned officers : 

Capt. Frank S. Hesseltine, promoted November 14th to major 
of the 13th Maine. 

Lieut. Nath'l Hanscom, promoted November 15th to captain 
of his company. 

2nd Lieut. W. A. Hatch, promoted November 15th to ist lieu- 
tenant of his company. 

Capt. W. S. Heath was promoted lieutenant colonel 5th regi- 
ment, September 25th. 

Lieut. F. E. Heath was promoted captain of his own Com- 
pany H. 

2nd Lieut. Jno. R. Day was promoted ist lieutenant of his 
own company. 

1st Sergt. E. C. Lowe was promoted 2nd lieutenant of his 
own company, and 

* Heni-ickson was a prisoner eleven months in Libby and Salisbury prisons and 
the Parish prison in New Orleans; was exchanged and returned to Waterville. In 
'63 he enlisted in the navy, and was promoted to Ensign. While serving as gun- 
ner in the turret of the monitor Saugus, in the second attack on I'ort Fisher, one 
of the 15-inch Rodman guns exploded, prostrating the executive officer and sev- 
enteen men in the turret, wounding every man except Henrickson, but, miracu- 
lously, killing none. 



waterville in the war. 9 

Sergt. J. H. Plaisted was promoted ist sergeant of his own 
company. 

These were the changes and casualties of our neighbors and 
friends at the front for the year i86t, in Companies G and H, 
3rd Maine. 

Of the boys from onr State, 188 were killed or died of disease 
or wounds, and 165 were prisoners or missing. 

The excitement, the ten thousand details of the recruiting, 
arming, equipping, and transportation of Maine troops to the seat 
of war; their military discipline there; the campaigns, battles, 
skirmishes, marches, sickness and deaths among these Maine 
boys in that first year of the war, filled the minds of the men and 
women of our town, and of the State, to the almost total exclu- 
sion of all else, except sympathy for those who mourned the loss 
of loved ones, and sympathy for the sick, suffering, homesick, 
heartsick boys who lingered in the populous hospitals where 
parting life was laid. 

No sooner had our first contingent, Companies G and H, b.^en 
uniformed at Augusta, than with natural instinct, devotion and 
helpfulness, the women of Waterville commenced their arduous 
duties of picking lint, making bandages, seeking contributions of 
money for hospital stores for soldiers in camp in our State, in 
the field and general hospitals ; and these duties were continuous, 
untiring, during the war. Commencing in the modest home — 
individual labor, sympathy and love, developed into the town, 
county, State and general organizations that spent fabulous sums 
for the sick and wounded, relieving distress in ways never before 
known. 

The approximate estimate of Waterville's contributions in 
money, hospital stores, etc., in public channels, from 1861 tO' 
1865 is: 

To soldiers in Maine camps and hospitals. . . . $600 00 

To general hospitals in loyal states 300 00 

To regimental hospitals and individuals 350 00 

To New York, Philadelphia, Boston, etc.... 200 00 

To United States Sanitary Commission 400 00 

To United States Christian Commission 1.500 00 

To aid to 652 persons in 215 families 10,234 42 

$13,584 42 



10 WATRRVILLE IN THK WAR. 

The modest beginnings of individuals and local associations 
of relief grew so helpful, so necessary, and finally so vast in 
scope, as to eclipse any and all efforts before or since made to 
supplement the hospital service of the army in its efforts to alle- 
viate suffering. Contributions were enormous. Government 
was calling for the last man and the last dollar to saz'C the coun- 
try, and to those at home money seemed worthless zcitlwiit coun- 
try, flag, and honor. 

In her "Epistle to Posterity" Mrs. Sherwood says : "Dr. Bel- 
lows was president of the Sanitary Commission, and I became 
secretary to the Metropolitan Fair and wrote innumerable letters 
to all our representatives in Europe. All answered well. After 
a winter's work we sent Dr. Bellows our million three hundred 
and sixty-fiz'e dollars in one cJieck, as the result of our work."* 

Among the many schemes for the benefit of our soldiers in the 
field was a plan for transmitting their pay or a portion of it to 
their families at home, authorized by General Orders No. 8i, 
war department, adjutant general's office, September 19, 1861, 
by "Allotment Rolls," to be signed by the soldier who designated 
his assignee, his address, and the amount per month to be 
reserved. These rolls were transmitted by company and regi- 
mental officers to the paymaster general, and by him to the dis- 
tributors or trustees appointed by the governor, who generously 
and patriotically consented not only to act without compensation, 
but to give bonds to Nathan Dane and John S. Hodsdon in the 
sum of 5^15,000 each for the faithful performance of their duties. 

The volunteer trustee for Waterville and vicinity was Homer 
Percival, Esq., cashier of the Peoples' Bank, who performed the 
onerous duties of this office during the war, although many of 
these trustees resigned their offices, finding the duties too 
exacting. 

The amount received and distributed by banks and private 
individuals as trustees in these allotment rolls prior to the trans- 

*The -writer has in liis possession a fine litbograpli receipt of the "Committee 
on Military Donations of tlie City of Boston," reading: 

"Boston, 1861" 
"Tliis certifies that the lailies of the Waterville Association have given sixty- 
dollars and thirty cents for the soUliers -who leave Boston under the requisition 
of the President of the United States." 

(signed) Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis 

for the Com. on Military Donations. 



WATSRVILLK IN THE) WAR. II 

fer of a part of these duties to the State treasurer by act of the 
legislature, and the few who continued to discharge those duties 
without compensation, must amount to some hundreds of thou- 
sands of dollars. 

The State treasurer alone received and disbursed $559,526.37. 

It could only gratify idle curiosity, to indicate how much of 
this sum came to VVaterville from our boys in the field, and in 
what years, and the suggestion is only made to show how impos- 
sible it is to-day to group events chronologically, which most 
interest us locally. Our neighbors and friends joined this or 
that regiment and lost their identity in the Grand Army of the 
Republic, that for four long years held in its grasp, not only the 
destiny of this Nation, but the fate of Liberty and good govern- 
ment throughout the globe, an army which knew no law but 
Loyalty, no thought but obedience ; an army that served under as 
many commanders as it fought campaigns ; yet marched as 
cheerfully and fought as loyally under the new commander as 
under the old ; an army that fought over more miles of ground 
than most continental armies ever marched over ; an army bap- 
tized in blood, consecrated in tears, and hallowed in prayers. 

In such a school, the fathers of this generation, were taught 
what loyalty meant ; what our flag symbolized ; while the 
mothers sat with sorrow and wrought with busy hands and tear- 
ful eyes. 

From homes of peaceful traditions ; lives of peaceful pursuits ; 
our Waterville boys stood up to be counted "for three years or 
for the war" — anxious to do their duty. 

Waterville was represented in each of the fifteen infantry regi- 
ments sent out in '61, except the 2nd, 4th, and 12th; as also in 
the 1st Cavalry and the 4th Battery, as follows : 

One in the ist Infantry; seventy-four in the 3rd Infantry; 
three in the 5th Infantry ; one in the 6th Infantry ; eight in the 
7th Infantry; fourteen in the 8th Infantry; three in the 9th 
Infantry; one in the loth Infantry; two in the nth Infantry; 
one in the 13th Infantry; one in the 14th Infantry; one in the 
15th Infantry; four in the First Cavalry; one in the 4th Battery. 

In 1862 Waterville furnished 102 volunteers for the twelve 
regiments of infantry and one regiment of heavy artillery, besides 
recruits, as follows : 



12 WATERVILLE IN THIC WAR. 

Twenty-two for the i6th Infantry; two for the 17th Infantry; 
eight for the 19th Infantry ; twenty-nine for the 20th Infantry ; 
forty-one for the 21st Infantry. 

Commissioned officers from Waterville in the i6th : Abner R. 
Small, Adjutant, promoted Major; \^'illiam A. Stevens, 2nd 
Lieut., 1st Lieut., and Captain, killed before Petersburg. 

Commissioned officers from Waterville in the 19th ; Francis 
E. Heath, promoted from the 3rd Me., to Lieut. -Col. of the 19th, 
Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General ; F. W. Haskell, Adjutant. 

Commissioned officers from Waterville in the 20th : Isaac S. 
Bangs, Captain ; Lieut.-Col. 81 st U. S. C. I. ; Col. U. S. colored 
Heavy Artillerv, Brevet Brigadier-General U.S. Vols. ; George C. 
Getchell, ist Sergt.,2nd Lieut., ist Lieut., Captain 8ist U. S. C. I., 
Major, Lieut.-Col., and Brevet-Colonel; Addison W. Lewis, ist 
Lieut, and Captain; Charles W. Billings, 2nd Lieut., ist Lieut, 
and Captain, died of wounds at Gettysburg ; Charles R. Shorey, 
Sergt., ist Sergt., 2nd Lieut., and ist Lieut. ; W. H. Low, Sergt. 
and 1st Lieut. ; Henry A. Batchelder, Sergt. and 2nd Lieut. 

Commissioned officers from Waterville in the 21st Regiment: 
John U. Hubbard, Captain ; George W. Hubbard, Sergt.-Major, 
2nd Lieut. ; Andrew Pinkham, 2nd Lieut. ; Frank Bodfish, 
Hospital Steward to Asst. Surgeon. 

Casualties and Promotions of commissioned officers from 
Waterville: Lieut.-Colonel W. S. Heath, 5th Me., killed at 
Gaines Mill; Chaplain Henry C. Leonard, from 3rd , to iSth 
Regt. ; William A. Hatch, ist Lieut, in 3rd Me., and Major 72nd 
U. S. C. I. ; George A. Mclntire, 2nd Lieut., ist Lieut., and Cap- 
tain ; James H. Plaisted, Sergt., Sergt.-Major, to Adjutant and 
Captain ; Samuel Hamblen, to 2nd Lieut., Captain, Major, and 
Lieut.-Col. in LHlman's Brigade ; E.G. Lowe, Sergt., to 2nd Lieut., 
resigned ; Frank H. Getchell, Hospital Steward to Assist. Sur- 
geon ; John R. Day, 2nd Lieut, to ist Lieut, and Captain ; Charles 
W. Lowe, 2nd Lieut, to ist Lieut, and Captain; William H. 
Copp, to 1st Lieut. Co. I, 17th Me.; Charles A. Farrington, to 
Lieut. 31st Me.; Samuel J. Haines, to Lieut. U. S. N. ; Henry 
E. Tozier to Lieut. 8th Me. ; John B. Wilson, to Surgeon 96th 
U. S. C. I. 

Waterville furnished for the two regiments of infantry and one 
of cavalry in 1863: Four for the 29th Infantry; sixteen for the 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 1 3 

30th Infantry; two for the 2nd Cavalry; and in 1864: Seven- 
teen for the 31st Infantry; three for the 32nd Infantry; and 
many recruits for all the regiments and hatteries in the field, the 
unassigned companies, the coast guards and naval service. 

The figures given for 186 1-2-3-4 being for the regiments, etc., 
as originally sent to the field, but these and all subsequent allot- 
ments of men under the President's call, were always up to the 
requirements. 

In 1861 more than its share was furnished, of men who 
received no bounty from the government and the town received 
no credit for the excess. 

The enlistments from Waterville for the years 1861 and 1862 
can be quite accurately determined, but to ascertain the actual 
enlistments in any succeeding year, to include recruits, drafted 
men, and substitutes, is a task of such magnitude that it will 
never be undertaken, because the results are unimportant and 
not commensurate with the labor. 

The quotas of Waterville and all the other towns and cities 
for 1863 and subsequent calls were not apportioned to such 
municipalities, but to the respective provost marshals, districts, 
sub-districts or to congressional districts, and no adequate record 
of these apportionments exists. 

The foregoing figures show that the enlistments for the origi- 
nal companies in different organizations of named men were 121 
in 1861 ; 102 in 1862; 22 in 1863: and 20 in 1864; while the 
alphabetical list printed herewith gives the names of 421 men; 
showing that 156 more men joined these organizations as recruits 
during these four years, or one in nine of the entire population in 
1861. 

Waterville paid in bounties for enlistments as follows : 
Call of 1 86 1 Nothing 

1862 3 years men $4,700 

1862 9 month men S'^oo 

1863 Volunteers S'Q^S 

1864-5 Volunteers and drafted men 

who furnished substitutes 45-79° 

Drafted men that entered service 1,200 

Substitutes 1,900 

$67,715 



14 WATKRVILLE IN THE WAR. 

Out of the 400 estimated alumni and undergraduates of Water- 
ville (now Colby) College in 1865, 142 entered service during 
the war. 

Thirty-eight members of Waterville Masonic Lodge entered 
service and seven were killed in battle. 

The State of Maine furnished 72,945 men for the war. The 
total number of troops killed or died of wounds was 2,801. The 
total number of troops who died of disease was 4,521. Total. 
y,^22, or about one in ten of the men who enlisted. 

The losses in naval service are not here included. 



It is impossible for the present generation to realize the danger, 
the privation, the suffering of those whom we knew ; who went 
out from among us ; or the agonizing suspense of the mothers, 
wives, sisters and daughters who were left at home; of their 
waiting, fearing, hoping, as the long campaigns followed each 
other, leaving in their trail, waste, ruin and lonely graves. 

And when battle was on, their faith in God was almost a pre- 
monition, while their constant prayer was for hope in his mercy, 
or strength to bear their pain. 

To those who remember the dreadful years of the war, it is 
no longer real, but a horrid dream of blood, and horror and woe. 

These will know that some of our boys followed their tattered 
flags, representing their vState, their town, their home, in every 
campaign, in every great battle, and every prison of the South. 

David Bates, our first martyr, represents Waterville at Bull 
Run, killed there forty-one years ago this month. 

George Bowman and Roscoe Young died at Yorktown. 

Lieut. -Col. W. S. Heath, the gallant soldier ; so early lost to 
his home and his country ; killed at the disastrous battle of 
Gaines Mill, where for forty years he has slept under the grass 
and flowers in an unknown grave. 

Miner W. Savage at South Mountain. 

Isaac W. Clark at Antietam. 

Lorenzo Clark, Charles F. Lyford, James O. West, and John 
M. Wheeler at Fredericksburg. 

William F. Bates, Albert Corson, and Joseph D. Simpson at 
Gettysburg. 



WATERVILLF, IN THE WAR. 1 5 

Hadley P. Dyer, Stephen Ellis, and Richard Perley at Port 
Hudson. 

William Chapman, C. R. Atwood, Peter Roderick, and Capt. 
William A. Stevens before Petersburg. 

Lieut. Charles A. Farrington at the W'ilderness ; commissioned 
Captain, but died of his wounds in Washington before he could 
be mustered. 

John O. James and Albert Quimby, buried at sea. 

Six died at Salisbury prison, two at Andersonville, one at 
Belle Isle, and one at Camp Gross, Texas. 

The yellow fever found a victim in the brilliant young officer, 
Br. Col. George C. Getchell, at New Orleans, and a soldier's 
death met our boys at Hatchers Run, Pleasant Hill, La., Weldon 
Railroad, Chantilly, Ship Island, Winchester, and Belle Plain. 

The Bacon family sent five sons ; but three returned. 

The ]Messer family sent three sons ; none returned. 

The "Penney Boys" — four brothers, three killed or died in 
service, one returned to die at home, of disease contracted in the 
army. 

Deacon Stevens sent histwo sons, most promising young men, — 
both killed in battle. 

Companies G and H of the Third Infantry, and Co. A of the 
20th Infantry were well known as Waterville companies, and 
from the first to last, the town furnished eighty-five men for the 
former, and forty-five for the latter. 

Of these, but three are living here of the eighty-five who went 
to the front in '6i, in the Third Regiment, — Charles R. Shorey, 
F. W. Haskell, and Charles Bacon ; in Oakland two, Baxter 
Crowell and George T. Benson. 

Of the forty-five who went into the 20th (Co. A), but two are 
living in Waterville, I. S. Bangs and Charles R. Shorey, and one 
in Oakland, William H. Stevens. 

Our Roll of Honor contains the names and military record of 
140 of our dead, including a few who came here to live at some 
time since the war and died, and found a resting place in Pine 
Grove Cemetery. Fifty of these went from here and are buried 
here. As many more "unheeded — unknown ;" — lie where they 
fell and were thrown into trenches without prayer, or died in hos- 
pital and prison and drifted away into the dawning eternities. 



l6 WATKRVILLE IN THF, WAR. 

Many of these are they who came back to ns "when war was 
done," thro' the blood-red haze of a score of battlefields. These 
and the living are the representatives of the men who bequeathed 
to this and the coming generations, in trnst forever, the heritage 
of a Nation saved, which they must learn how to defend. 

These are the names of men that in the annals of this fair city 
deserve imperishable fame, and in reverent spirit let every citizen 
of Waterville read this 



Roll of Honor. 

Allen, Benjamin C. : Co. B, 14th INTass. Inf. Vol., afterwards 
designated as ist Mass. H'y Art. Died in Amory Square Hos- 
pital, Washington, May 23d, 1864, of wounds received at Spott- 
sylvania May 19, 1864. 

Aderton, Wm. H. : Private, Co. B, 13th Me.; died July 17, 
1862, of disease, at Ship Island. • 

Atwood, Charles R. : Sergeant, Co. B, 32nd Me. ; killed, July 
30th, 1864, at Petersburg. 

Balentine, Elijah : Private, Co. L, 4th Mass. Cav. Buried 
here. 

Balentine, Samuel : Corporal. Co. K. 7th Me. Vols. Died 
December 29, 1883. Buried here. 

Bates, David : Private, Co. G, 3d Me. Killed at Bull Run, 
July 21, 1861. First man killed from Waterville. 

Bowman, Geo. W., Jr. : Private, Co. E, 3rd Me. Died at 
Yorktown, May 13, 1862. 

Brackett, Orrin : Private, 6th Me. Battery. Died at Water- 
ville, March 21, 1863. 

Bickford, Bennett : Private, Co. E, 30th Me. Died at New 
Orleans, May 4, i86.^.. 

Bacon, Chas. : Private, Co. G, 3rd Me. Died at City Point, 
1864. 

Boothby, Warren J.: Private, Co. I, 31st Me. Died at 
Waterville, April 24, 1869. 

Blair. John : Private, Co. B, i6th Me., Co. G, 20th Me. Died 
at Fairfield, 1891. 



waterville; in the war. 17 

Bacon, ^\'m. H. : Corporal. 3rd INIe. Died at Waterville, 
1862. 

Barrett, Wm. K. : Private. Co. H, 3rd Me. Died at Libby 

Prison or Belle Isle. Date unknown. 

Bates, Isaac W. : Private, Co. F, 32nd Me. Died at Salis- 

burv Prison. 

Bates, Wm. T. : Private, Co. E, i6th Me. Killed at Battle 

of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. 

Bates, Phineas : Private, Co. F, 32nd Me. Died in Salis- 
bury Prison. 

lilake, Geo. E. A.: Private. Co. E, 8th Me. Killed at 
Hatcher's Run, Va., April 2, 1865. 

Butler, Daniel : Private, Co. B, 12th Me. Inf. Vet. Vol. Died 
here, J"ne 18, 1896. 

Bushey, Levi: Co. I. 8th Me. Died December 15, 1900. 

Bushey, William : Private, Co. C, 9th Maine. Died here, 
June 15, 1902. Buried here. 

Levi Cayouette : Private, Co. E., 30th Me. Died here, 
August 19, 1902. Buried here. 

Copp, Wm. H. : ist Lieut., Co. I, 17th Me. Died in Minne- 
sota, April, 1883. 

Copp, Alonzo : Private, Co. B, 34th Regt. Pa. Vol. and 5th Pa. 
Reserves; private, Co. C, 191st Pa. Died in Salisbury Prison, 
of starvation, December 28, 1864. 

Cary, Joseph : Private, Co. A, 7th Me. Died in Waterville. 
Buried here. 

Crosby, Atwood : Asst. Surgeon, U. S. Navy, Co. G, 3rd 
Me. Died in Las Vegas, N. M., January 25, 1883. Buried here. 

Chapman, William: Private, Co. D, 8th Me.; Co. E, 27th 
Me. Killed at Petersburg, June 15, 1864. 

Clark. Lorenzo D. : Private, Co. A, 20th Me. Died at Fred- 
ericksburg, Va., 1863. 

Clark, Isaac W. : Private, Co. A, 20th Me. Died at Antie- 
tam, November, 1862. 

Clark, Charles: Co. I, 3rd Ale. Regt. Transferred to 3rd 
U. S. Artillery. 

Cochran, Hiram: Private, Co. K. 3rd Me. Wounded at 
Gettysburg, July 3rd, 1863. Died in Libby Prison, December 

23rd, 1863. 
2 



lo WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 

Cochran, Thaddens : Private, Co. C, 41st Mass. Died at 
Alexandria, La., in hospital. 

Corson, Albert : Co. H, 3rd Regt. Died of wounds, July 2, 
1863. 

Dusty, Frank: Private, Co. T, 31st Me. Died here, of 
wounds, April 10, 1866. Buried here. 

De Wolfe, Wm. H. : Private, Co. M, ist Me. Heavy Art. 
Died at Washington, of wounds, June 1 1, 1864. Buried here. 

Davis, Octavius A.: Private Co. K, ist D. C. Cav. Died in 
Salisbury prison, November 4, 1864. 

Dyer, Hadley P. : Sergeant Co. B, 21st Me. Died at Cairo, 
111., en route home, of wounds received at Port Hudson. 

Dubor, Isaac : Private, Co. A, Me. Coast Guards. Died here, 
April 15, 1869. 

Davis, Arba P.: Corporal, Co. I, 31st Me. Died here, Nov- 
ember 30, 1885. 

Ellis, Stephen: Private. Co. B. 21st Me. Killed at Port 
Hudson, May 27, 1863. 

Euarde, Paulette : Private, Co. A, qth Me. Died of wounds, 
July 24, 1864. 

Ellis, Dighton : Co. E, ist Regt. Veteran Infantry. 

Folsom, Samuel P. : Private, 3rd Me. Died December 22, 
1861. 

Farrington, Charles A.: Lieut. 31st Me. Died at Washing- 
ton, June 20, 1864, of wounds received at the Battle of the 
Wilderness. 

Farnham, Wm. H. : Private, Co. B, 21st Me. Died at New 
Orleans, May 16, 1863. 

Fish, Hiram : Co. H. 3rd Regt. Died at Hospital, Harrison's 
Landing. 

Getchell, Geo. C. : Bvt. Lieut.-Col. IT. S. Vols.; Major, 8ist 
U. S. C. I. Died of yellow fever at New Orleans, September 
21, 1866. Buried here. 

Gibbs, Thos. A.: Private, Co. G, i6th Me. Died Dec. 9, 
1863. Body brought home. Buried here. 

Gibbs, David B., Jr. : Private, Co. B, 14th Me. Died, April 
I, 1863. 

Gilcot, Frank: Private, Co. I, 31st Me. No headstone; no 
record. 

Grant, Isaiah : Private, Co. F, 32nd Me. Died here, Decem- 
ber 22, 1882. Buried here. 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. IQ 

Hardy, D. W. : Assistant Surgeon, Surgeon, U. S. Col'd Inf. 
Died at Billerica, Mass., July 28, 1901. Buried here. 

Herbert, Edw. B. : Private, ist Me. Cav. Died at Washing- 
ton. D. C, of wounds, May 3, 1865. Returned prisoner. 

Hubbard, Albro: Sergeant, Co. H, 3rd Me. Released from 
Andersonviile, March 10. Died at Annapolis, Md., March 16, 
1864, from effects of want and exposure at Andersonviile. 

Heath. W. S. : Ivieut.-Col. 5th Me. Killed at Gaines Mill, 
June 27, 1862. 

Ham, W. H. : Private, 31st Me. Died at Poplar Grove 
Church, Va., November 26, 1864. 

Hayward, W. E. : Co. A, ist Mass. Died here, August 19, 
1869. Buried here. 

Haynes, Samuel J. : Lieut., U. vS. Navy. Died here. May, 
1892. Buried here. 

Heath, Francis Edv/. : Col, 19th Me. Brevet Brig. General. 
Died here, December 20, 1897. 

Herrick, Algernon P. : Co. G, 3rd Regt. Taken Prisoner, 
July 2, 1863. Died in prison. 

Plubbard, A. J.: Capt. Co. F, 31st Me. Died at Morganza, 
La., July 16, 1864. Capt. Hubbard was twin brother of Capt. 
Geo. W. and brother of Capt. John U. ; was born in Waterville, 
lived here until past his majority and went into the service from 
the west. 

Jero, Joseph : Private, 30th Me. Died in prison at Camp 
Gross, Texas, December i, 1864. 

James, John O. : Seaman, ship "Colorado." Died at 
sea of yellow fever, September 10, 1863. 

Jackson, John: Private, 1st Me. Heavy Art. Died here, 
April 3, 1875. Buried here. 

Keith, Sidney : Private, Co. A, 20th Me. Died, October 10, 
1890. Buried here. 

King, Moses : Private, 30th Me. Died on steamer near 
Portland, August 26, 1865. when returning home. 

Kelley, Moses : Chaplain Soldiers Home, Togus ; Chaplain 
U. S. Army from 1870 to 1S79, when he was retired. Died at 
Damariscotta, Me., August 25, 1898. Buried here. 

Lowe, Chas. W. : Captain, Co. G, 3rd Me. Died at Skow- 
hegan, April 11, 1887. Buried there. 



20 WATERVILLK IN THE WAR. 

Lyford, Chas. F. : Private, i6th Me. Killed at Fredericks- 
burg, Va., December 14, 1862. 

Libby, B. M. : Private, Co. T, 31st Me. Buried here. 

La Fontaine, Alex: Private, Co. H, 7th Me. Died, March 
26, 1886. Buried here. 

Loring, E. P. : Lieut.-Col. loth U. S. Heavy Art. Col. Died 
in Boston, October 30, 1894. Buried here. 

Messer, Orin: Private, Co. E, 7th Me. Taken prisoner at 
Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864. Died in Libby prison, of wounds. 

Messer, Alvin : Private, Co. G, 7th Me. Died at Alexandria, 
September 24, 1862. 

Messer, John N. : Private, Co. G, 7th Me. Killed on skir- 
mish line, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania, Va. 

Macomber, Otis: Private, Co. K, i6th Me. Died at Belle 
Plain, Va., March 15, 1863. Buried here. 

Murray, Lewis : Private, Co. B, i6th Me. Killed at Fred- 
ericksburg, December 13th, 1862. 

McFarland, Ira I. : ist Me. Cav. Died at Waterville. Feb- 
ruary 8, 1864. Biu'ied here. 

Marston, VVm. H. : Sergeant, 32nd Mass. Died at Win- 
chester, Va., in hospital. Date unknown. 

Paine, John A.: 5th Me. Battery. Died at Portland, May 
20,1871. Buried here. 

Penney, Jos. M. : Sergeant, Co. B, 7th Me. Died here, Nov- 
ember 19, 1862. Was at home on furlough when he died. 
Buried here. 

Penney, Wm. W. : Private, 15th Me. Died at New Orleans, 
March 5, 1864. Buried here. 

Penney, Peletiah : Private, 3rd Me. Died at Washington, 
November i, 1862. Buried here. 

Penney, Ira D. : Private, 31st Me. Died at Salisbury prison, 
January 10, 1865, of starvation and despair; died "crying for 
bread." 

Percival, Albert W. : Private, Engineer Corps. Died here, 
August 22,, 1872. Buried here. 

Percival, Wm, C. : Seaman, U. S. Navy. Killed at Bangor 
in railroad accident, August 9, 1871. 

Percival, Geo. G. : Assistant Surgeon, 80th U. S. C. I. Died 
here, August 3, 1882. Buried here. 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 21 

Pease, Elias : Private, Co. K., i^^th Me. Buried here. 

Perley, Richard: Private, 2Tst Me. Killed at Port Hudson, 
May 27, 1863. 

Perry, Joseph : Private. 3rd Me. Wounded and made pris- 
oner at Chantilly, Aug-ust 31, 1862, and never heard from. 

Perry, James: Private, Co. G, 3rd Me. Died here, April 15, 
1875. Buried here. 

Peters, Thomas : Private, Co. H, 12th Me. Died here, March 
7, 1902. 

Phelps, Lewis G. : Private, Co. G, i6th Me. Died July 28, 
1863. Buried here. 

Phelps, Wm. H. : Private, Co. H, 13th. Me. ; Co. H, 30th Me. 

Plummer, Edwin: Private. Co. B, 21st INIe. Died at Port 
Hudson, La., July 24, 1863. 

Pooler, Peter : Co. C, 28th Mass. Inf. Buried here. 

Pooler, Jos.: Private, Tst ]\Je., Heavy Art. Died at Ports- 
mouth, July 14, 1864, of wounds. 

Pooler, Ephraim : Private, Co. E, 30th Me. Died at Water- 
ville, October 15, 1868. Buried here. 

Pooler, Henry : Private, Co. P[, 30th Me. Died at New 
Orleans, July 11, 1864. 

Pooler, Jos. : Private, Co. E, 19th Me. Died here, January 
23, 1887. Buried here. 

I'rescott, E. E. : 21st Me. Died here, April 18, 1874. Buried 
here. 

Proctor, Sumner B. : Private, Co. F, Me. Coast Guards. 
Died here, July 16, 1892. Buried here. 

Pullen, James Burney : Corporal, Co. E, 30th Me. Wounded 
at Pleasant Hill, La. Died in prison, April 29, 1864. 

Quimby, Albert : Private, 30th Me. Died on steamer en 
route to New Orleans and buried at sea, March 17, 1864. 

Ricker, James F. : Private, Co. G, 3rd '*Me. Died at Alex- 
andria, Va., Sept. Ti. t86i. 

Rodrick, Peter : Private, 19th Me. Killed on picket before 
Petersburg, November 12, 1864. 

Rice, Thos. G. : Lieutenant, 2nd Me. Cav. Buried here. 

Roberts, Winslow : Lieutenant, Co. I, 14th Me. ; Captain, Co. 
H, 14th Me. ; Captain, Co. G, Maine Coast Guards. Died here, 
June 17, 1879. Buried here. 



22 WATERVILLF, IN THE WAR. 

Ronco, Jos. : Private, Co. K, 29th Me. Died in Waterville. 
Buried here. 

Richards, Jos. : Private. Co. B, 21st Me. Died here, March 
3, 1892. Buried here in CathoHc cemetery. 

Ronco, Abram, 2nd: Private, Co. A, 9th Me. Died here, 
Sepember 10. 1891. Buried here. 

Richardson. Royal: Private, Co. B, 21st Me. Died here, 
September 20, 1863. 

Roderick, John : Private, Co. A, 20th Me. Died here, Nov- 
ember 17, 1898. Buried here. 

Savage, Miner W. : Corporal, 12th Mass. Killed at South 
Mountain, September 17, 1862. 

Simpson. Jos. D. : Corporal, Co. A, 20th Me. Killed at 
Gettysburg, Jul}^ 2, 1863. 

Shepherd, Rich A. : Private, Co. C, T9th Me. Killed in the 
battle of the Wilderness, May 7, 1864. 

Stevens, V/m. A. : Captain i6th Me. Killed near Peters 
burg, June 19, 1864. Buried here. 

Stevens, Edwin C. : Sergeant Major, i6th Me. Killed at the 
Weldon Railroad, August 18, 1864. Buried here. 

Sawtelle, John R. : 3rd Me. Died August 18, 1862. Buried 
here. 

Scates, Edgar : Private. Co. A, 20th Me. Died at Portland, 
Alarch 29, 1881. Buried here. 

Soule, Daniel A. : Private, Co. E, i6th Me. Died here, Octo- 
ber 13, 1883. Buried here. 

Stevens, Jason R. : Private, Co. D, 7th Me. Died in Water- 
ville, 1863. Buried here. 

Stevens, G. G. : 26th Co. Unassigned. 

Saunders, Theodore O. : ist Sergeant, Co. G, 62nd 111. Died 
at Soldiers' Home at Togus, July 3, 1896. Buried here. 

Tilley, George M. : Private, Co. I, 31st Me. Died at 
Augusta, Me., April 2, 1864. 

Thayer, Adin B. : Private, Co. B, i6th Me. Taken prisoner 
at Weldon Railroad, August 18, 1864. Died at Salisbury prison. 

Tallouse, Martin: Private, i6th Me. Wounded and missing 
at battle of Weldon Railroad, October 18, 1864. 

Tozier, Henry E. : Captain, Co. I. 8th Me. Killed at Fort 
Holly, Spring Hill, Va., December 10, 1864. Buried there. 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 23 

Tozier, Albert F. : Private, Co. H, i ith Me. Died at Water- 
ville, March 13, 1865. Buried here. 

Tozier, W. M. : Private. Co. E, 30th Me. Died at Pleasant 
Hill, La., of wounds, December i, 1864. Buried here. 

West, Wallace W. : Hospital Lieutenant, 8th Me. Died here, 
February 5, 1862. 

Wyman, Wm. \^^ : Sergeant, 3rd and 21st Me. Died of 
wounds received at Port Hudson, June i, 1863. 

Woodman, Erastus D. : Corporal, 14th U. S. L Died at 
Washington under surgeon's hands while imdergoing amputa- 
tion of his leg. 

Wheeler, George L. : Private, Co. G, 3rd Me. Killed at 
Chantilly, vSeptember i, 1862. 

West, James O. : Private, 31st Me. Died at Fredericksburg, 
May 23, 1864, of wounds. 

Wilson, John B. : Surgeon, 96th U. S. C. L Died at Dexter, 
March 15, 1866. Buried here. 

Washburn, John N. : No record. 

Wheeler, John M. : Private, Co. G, i6th Me. Wounded at 
Fredericksburg, December 13. Died December 18, 1862. 

White, Henry: 2nd Battery, ist Mounted Artillery; ist 
Cavalry. 

Young, Eben W : Private, 3rd Me. Died in prison at 
Columbus, Ga., March 26, 1864. 

Young, Eugene H. : Co. H, 3rd Me. Died here, February 
19, 1893. 

Young, Roscoe G : Private, Co. H, 3rd Me. Died at York- 
town, Va., April 22, 1862. 

" Tlie long years come and go, 

And the Past, 
The sorrowful, splendid Past, 
With its glory and its woe, 

Seems never to have been. 



Seems never to have been? 
O sombre days and grand, 
How ye crowd back again, 

Seeing our heroes' graves are green. 



24 w^vtervillf: in the war. 

Tears ■will well to our eyes, 
Anrl the bitter doubt will rise- 
But hush ! for the strife is clone, 
Forgiven are wound and scar; 
The fight was fought and won 
Long since, on sea and shoie, 
And every ecattered star 
Set in the blue once more; 
We are one as before, 
With the blot from our scutcheon gone ! " 

The writer began more than four years ago, the preparation of 
a Hst of the soldiers who served in the Civil War from the town 
of Waterville ; intending to print the same for distribution among 
our citizens. 

It has been a fascinating pursuit, a labor of love ; better, a 
tribute to the living and the dead of our brave volunteers. 

In pursuit of detailed information in regard to the military 
record of different soldiers, inquiry developed interesting statis- 
tics in regard to previous wars in which this country has been 
engaged and in which citizens of Waterville bore a part. These 
have accumulated until they cover something of the details of 
the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Aroostook War, 
the Mexican War, the War of the Rebellion, the War with Spain 
and the Phillippine War. All too long, the preservation of prec- 
ious material has been delayed. What has been secured the 
writer hopes will prove of interest if printed here. 

Sixty years ago, more than a score of Revolutionary soldiers 
lived here, who carried all the material in their memory, for a 
record of their lives. 

Fifty years ago the War of 1812 could have been intelligently 
rehearsed by men living. The same is true of the Mexican. 
The facts, so important historically and so difncult of proof 
today, were rehearsed for years by men whose memory was 
better than books. 

Survivors of the Civil War, who went from \\'aterville, are 
scattered far and wide over the length and breadth of this coun- 
try and will never return. 

The feeling of the writer has been, that it was a duty someone 
owed to the boys of '61 ; the least of whom, from here, took his 
life in his hand with his rifle, and living or dead deserves a 
record. 



WATERV'ILLE IN THE WAR. 25 

The simple alphabetical h'st indicates Httle of the labor required 
to perfect it, or the great expense of research, copying and 
recopying, typewriting and material. It is not claimed to-day 
as perfect, but perfection has been aimed at. and if any one who 
is interested can discover an error, the writer will be grateful for 
information. 

The list contains the name of every soldier who enlisted from 
Waterville, or who, having been born and reared here, left home, 
and when war was declared enlisted in another town or state. 

The writer trusts the citizens of Waterville will appreciate the 
list and the labor. 

Grateful acknowledgments are tendered to the very able and 
soldierly Adjutant-General John T. Richards, and his chief clerk, 
Thomas Clark, for valuable information and careful revision of 
the list, as well as to the courteous Colonel F. C. Ainsworth, 
chief, Record and Pension office of the war department, for valu- 
able advice and prompt and painstaking replies to all inquiries. 

Much kindness has also been shown the writer by Hon. Wm. 
M. Olin, secretary of the Commonwealth of ^Massachusetts, to 
whom thanks are due for Civil \Yav and Revolutionarv records. 



Waterville Soldiers ix the War of the Rebellion. 

Aderton, Wm. H., T3th Infantry, volunteer; Alexander, Geo. 
E.. 1st cavalry, volunteer: Allen, Alanley, 19th Infantry, substi- 
tute; Allen, Benjamin C, 14th Massachusetts, volunteer; Atkin- 
son, Leroy, 7th Infantry, volunteer; Atwood, Chas. R., 32nd 
Infantry, volunteer; Avery, John, 21st Infantry, volunteer. 

Bacon, Chas., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Bacon, John H., 3rd 
Infantry, volunteer; Bacon, W. H., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; 
Bacon, James R.. 7th Infantry, volunteer; Bacon. George. 7th 
Infantry, volunteer; Bagley, Alexander, 19th Infantry, substi- 
tute; Balentine, William, i6th Infantry, volunteer; Balentine, 
Elijah, 4th Massachusetts, vohmteer ; Bangs, I. S., 20th Infantry, 
volunteer; Barney, Henry, 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Barrett. Wm. 
K., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Bartlett, Nelson G., Coast Guards, 
volunteer; Basford, Andrew J., 19th Infantry, drafted; Bates, 
David, 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Bates, Geo. W., U. S. Navy, 
volunteer ; Bates, John H., 20th Infantry, volunteer ; Bates, Wm, 



2.6 WATF.RVILLE IN THK WAR. 

F., i6th Infantry, volunteer ; Benson, Geo. F., 3rd Infantry, 
volunteer; Bickford, Levi S., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Bickford, 
Bennett, 30th Infantry, volunteer; Bickford, Cyrus, 20th Infan- 
try, volunteer; Billings, Hiram, 15th Infantry, volunteer; Black, 
Portal M., 7th Infantry, volunteer ; Blackstone, Daniel, 8th 
Infantry, volunteer; Blackstone, Daniel, 31st Infantry, volunteer; 
Blackstone, Chas. H., 32nd Infantry, volunteer; Blackstone, Geo. 
C., 32nd Infantry, volunteer; Blackwell, Sam'l H., 52nd IMassa- 
chusetts, volunteer : Blair, John, i6th Infantry, substitute ; Blake, 
Geo. A. E., 8th Infantry, volunteer; Bodfish, Frank, 21st Infan- 
try, volunteer; Boothby, Warren, 31st Infantry, volunteer; Bow, 
Horace, 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Bowden, Henry H., 2i9t Infan- 
try, volunteer; Bovvlett, Frederic. 21st Infantry, volunteer; Bow- 
man, Geo. W., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Brackett, Orrin, 6th Bat- 
tery, volunteer; Branch, Milton M,, ist D. C. Cavalry and ist 
Cavalry, volunteer ; Branch, Chas. H., U. S. Navy, substitute ; 

Branch, Elisha R., U. S. Navy, substitute; Bray, Robert, 

substitute; Brooks, Wm. E., i6th Infantry, volunteer; Brown, 
James, ist Cavalry, volunteer; Brown, Wm. W., 15th Infantry, 
volunteer ; Bryant. Geo. H., Coast Guards, volunteer ; Bubier, 
John, 20th Infantry, substitute; Burns, John W., 19th Infantry, 
substitute ; Bushey, Levi, 8th Infantry, volunteer ; Bussford, 
Andrew J., 19th Infantr}-, drafted ; Butler, Thomas, 8th Infantry, 
volunteer; Bowman, M. T. V., ist Cavalry, volunteer. 

Calder, John G., ist Veteran Infantry, substitute; Campbell, 
Augustus, 19th Infantry, substitute ; Carey, Joseph, 7th Infantry, 
volunteer; Carson, Chas. J., ist Cavalry, volunteer; Cayouette, 
Levi, 30th Infantry, volunteer; Chandler, Henry A., i6th Infan- 
try, substitute; Chapman, Wm., 8th Infantry, volunteer; Chase, 
George, 19th Infantry, substitute; Chick, Isaac, I5tli Infantry, 
volunteer ; Clark, Albert Al., 20th Infantry, volunteer ; Clark, 
Charles, 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Clark, Isaac W., 20th Infantrv^ 
volunteer; Clark, Lorenzo D., 20th Infantry, volunteer; Clifford, 
Selden I., 21st Infantry, volunteer; Clukey, Chas. H., 13th Infan- 
try, volunteer ; Cochran, Robert, 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Coch- 
ran, Andrew, 31st Infantry, volunteer; Cochran, Hiram, 3rd 
Infantry, volunteer; Cook, Moses W., i6th Infantry, volunteer; 
Copp, Alonzo, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves and 19th Regiment 



waterville; in the: war. 27 

Pennsylvania Volunteers, volunteer ; Copp, Wm. H., 3rd Infan- 
try, volunteer ; Corson, Albert, 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Cousens, 
Prentiss M., 12th Infantry, volunteer; Cross, Chas. E., i6th 
Infantry, volunteer; Cross, Carlostine, 17th Infantry, substitute; 
Cross, Joseph, i6th Infantry, substitute; Crowell, Henry, 3rd 
Infantry, volunteer; Crowell. Baxter, 3rd Infantry, volunteer; 
Cummings, Walter L.. 15th Infantry, volunteer; Cunning-ham, 
Francis M., 15th Infantry, volunteer; Curtis, James M., 3rd 
Infantry, volunteer; Cushman, Andrew J., 8th Infantry, volun- 
teer. 

Davis, Arba P., 31st Infantry, volunteer; Davis, Daniel B., 
9th Infantry, volunteer ; Davis, Geo. W., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; 
Davis, Octavus A., D. C. Cavalry, volunteer ; Day, John R., 3rd 
Infantry, volunteer; Day, Isaac C, 20th Infantry, volunteer; 
Dearborn, Geo. H., 19th Infantry, volunteer; Deleware, Geo., 
30th Infantry, volunteer; Derocher, Chas. W., 3rd Infantry, 
volunteer ; Derocher, Henry, 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; DeWolf, 
Wm. H., Tst Heavy Artillery, volunteer; Dore, Henry A., 19th 
Infantry, substitute; Dow, Levi A., 21st Infantry, volunteer; 
Downes, Geo. A., 19th Infantry, substitute ; Drake, Nelson, V. S. ; 
Dusty, Frank, 31st Infantry, volunteer; Dusty, James, 8th 
Infantry, volunteer; Dyer, Hadley P., 3rd and 21st Infantry, 
volunteer ; Dyer, James A., U. S. Navy, substitute. 

Eames, Luther N., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Ellis, Luther, 6th 
Battery, volunteer; Ellis, Stephen, 21st Infantry, volunteer; 
Ellis, Sullivan, 21st Infantry, volunteer; Ellis, Dighton, ist 
Maine Veteran Infantry, volunteer; Emery, Fanuel H., 20th 
Infantry, volunteer; Emery, John W., 26th Massachusetts, vol- 
unteer: Emery, Nath'l S., D. C. Cavalry, volunteer; Emery, 
Samuel D., 14th Massachusetts, volunteer ; Enman, Paul, 3orh 
Infantry, volunteer; Euarde, Paulette, 9th Infantry, volunteer; 
Evans, Leander H., 8th Infantry, substitute. 

Fairbanks, Henry L., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Fairbanks, 
Henry N., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Farrington, Chas. A., 31st 
Infantry, volunteer; Fenno, Chas. A., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; 
Fish, Hiram, 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Folsom, Samuel P., ist 
Infantry, volunteer; Foster, Dennis M., 20th Infantry, volunteer; 
Frazier, Dudley C, ist Heavy Artillery, volunteer; Frizzle, Geo. 



25 WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 

B., Coast Guards, volunteer; Frost, Henry M., yh Infantry, 
volunteer ; Fuller, Franklin Z., U. S. Navy, substitute. 

Galusha, Cyrus C, 13th Infantry, volunteer; Garland, John, 
Jr., 2ist Infantrv, volunteer; Garney, George, ist Cavalry, vol- 
unteer; Gayrou,£(h, George, 7th Infantry, volunteer; Gerald, 
Ezekiel, 20th Infantry, volunteer; Gerough, Joseph, 30th Infan- 
try, volunteer ; Getchell, PVank H., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; 
Getchell, Geo. C, 20th Infantry, volunteer; Getchell, Marshall 
P., 9th Infantry, volunteer; Gibbs, John F., 31st Infantry and 
i6th Massachusetts, volunteer; Gibbs, Thomas A., i6th Infantry, 
volunteer; Gibbs, David R., 14th Infantry, volunteer; Gibbs, 
David B., Jr., 14th Infantry, volunteer ; Gibbs, John F., i6th 
Massachusetts, volunteer ; Gilbear, Chas., 7th Infantry, volun- 
teer ; Gilcott, Frank, 31st Infantry, volunteer; Gleason, Russell, 
2ist Infantry, volunteer; Gleason, Geo. R., 21st Infantry, volun- 
teer; Goff, Alonzo, 2 1st Infantry, volunteer; Goff, Alonzo, 31st 
Infantry, volunteer ; Gonnea, Geo., 9th Infantry, volunteer ; 
Goodrich, Daniel, drafted ; Goodridge, Foster, ist Veteran Infan- 
try, volunteer; Goodwin, John F., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; 
Gordon, Edmund, 2nd Infantry, volunteer; Goulding, Henry, 
3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Gray, Albert J., 19th Infantry, substi- 
tute ; Gullifer, Moses H., D. C. Cavalry, volunteer. 

Haines, Samuel J., Lieutenant U. S. Navy, volunteer ; Ham, 
Wm. H., 31st Infantry, volunteer; Hamblen, Samuel, 3rd Infan- 
try, volunteer; Hanuth, John H., V. S., volunteer; Haskell, 
Frank W., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Hatch, Frederick C, D. C. 
Cavalry, volunteer; Hatch, Joseph H., 20th Infantry, volunteer; 
Hatch, Wm. A., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Hawes, Wilson, 19th 
Infantry, substitute ; Heath, Wm. S., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; 
Heath, Francis E., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Henrickson, Chas. 
A., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Plerbert, Edward B., ist Maine 
Cavalry, volunteer; Herbert, Thos. G., U. S. Navy, substitute; 
Herrick, Algernon P., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Hersom, Milford, 
3rd Infantry, volunteer; Hersom, Samuel T., 21st Infantry, vol- 
unteer; Hersom, Wm.. H., 21st Infantry, volunteer; Hesseltine, 
Frank S., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Higgins, Albert H., ist Cav- 
alry, volunteer ; Hill, George, substitute ; Hitchings, Frank E., 
i6th Infantry, volunteer; Ilodgdon, John S., nth Infantry, vol- 



WATERN'ILLK IN THE WAR. 2(> 

unteer; Horn, Hiram, 17th Infantry, drafted; Horn, Llewellyn, 
15th Infantry, volunteer; Houghton, Daniel F., i6th Infantry, 
volunteer; Howes, Wilson, iQth Infantry, volunteer; Huard, 
Paul, 9th Infantry, volunteer ; Hubbard, Albro, 3rd Infantry, 
volunteer; Hubbard, Geo. W., 21st Infantry, volunteer; Hub- 
bard, John W., 2ist Infantry, volunteer; Hutchins, Parker P., 
20th Infantry, vohmteer. 

James, Isaiah H., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; James, John, O.. 
U. S. Navy, volunteer; Jibbear, Chas., 7th Infantry, volunteer; 
Jones, Geo. J., 21st Infantry, volunteer; Joy, Wm. P., 19th Infan- 
try, volunteer. 

Keene, Josiah T., Dth Infantry, volunteer; Keith, Sidney, 20th 
Infantry, volunteer ; Kendall, Chas., 14th Infantry, volunteer ; 
King, Moses, 21st Infantry, volunteer; King, John,- 20th Infan- 
try, volunteer ; Kirby, John J., volunteer ; Knox, Sylvester, 3rd 
Infantry, volunteer; Knox, William, 15th Infantry, volunteer; 
Knox, Sylvanus, 19th Infantry, volunteer. 

Lachanse, Veidal, i6th Infantry, volunteer; Lashus, Geo., 3rd 
Infantry, volunteer ; Latlip, Gott, 29th Infantry, volunteer ; Lat- 
lip, Geo., 7th Infantry, volunteer; Leonard, Henry C., 3rd Infan- 
try (chaplain), volunteer; Lewis, Solomon B., 3rd Infantry, 
volunteer; Lewis, David J., 20th Infantry, volunteer; Lewis, 
Addison W., 20th Infantry, volunteer; Libby, Henry H., sub- 
stitute; Libby, Albert L., 6th Infantry, volunteer; Littlefield, 
Geo., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Lonelon, Chas. W., V. S. ; Lore, 
Wm., i6th Infantry, substitute; Love, Chas., 20th Infantry, vol- 
unteer ; Lowe, Edw. C, 13th Infantry, volunteer ; Lowe, Edw. C, 
3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Lowe, Chas. W., 3rd Infantr)', volun- 
teer; Lowe, W^m. H., 20th Infantry, volvmteer; Lowe, Franklin 
B., D. C. Cavalry, volunteer; Lowell, A. M., U. S. Navy, substi- 
tute ; Lubier, Gott, 8th Infantry, volunteer ; Lyford, Chas. F., 
i6th Infantry, volunteer; Lyford, James M., i6th Infantry,, 
volunteer. 

Maines, Geo., Jr., U. S. Navy, substitute; Mains, Graham, 
U. S. A., volunteer ; Manton, Wm. H., 32nd Massachusetts, vol- 
unteer ; Marshall, Joseph, 30th Infantry, volunteer ; Marston, 
Watson, 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Martin, Daniel E., 15th Infan- 



30 WATfiRVILLE IN THE WAR. 

try, volunteer; Mason, Fred T., nth Infantry, volunteer; Maury, 
Joseph, i6th Infantry, volunteer; Maxham, Geo. M., 5th Infan- 
try, volunteer; Merchant, Harrison, i6th Infantry, volunteer; 
Merrill, Chas. W., Hancock's Corps, volunteer ; Merton, Ernest, 
19th Infantry, substitute; Messer, John N., 7th Infantry, volun- 
teer; Messer, Orrin, 7th Infantry, volunteer; Messer, Alvin, 7th 
Infantry, volunteer ; Messer, Eugene P., 30th Infantry, volun- 
teer ; McCartney, Wra. H., 21st Infantry, volunteer; McDonald, 
Hugh, Sharpshooters, volunteer; McDonald, Dugald, 31st Infan- 
try, volunteer ; McFadden, Michael, 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; 
McGilvery, John, i6th Infantry, volunteer; McGrath, Daniel, 
29th Infantry, volunteer; Mclntire,- Geo. A., 3rd Infantry, vol- 
unteer ; McLaughlin, Timothy, 20th Infantry, volunteer ; Morri- 
son, lohn, 19th Infantry, substitute; Mosher, Francis B., 21st 
Infantry, volunteer; Mosher, Madison, 21st Infantry, volunteer; 
Morton, Wm. H., 32nd Massachusetts, volunteer ; Murphy, 
Chas. D., V. S. ; Murray, Louis, i6th Infantry, volunteer; Muz- 
zey, Geo. E., 20th Infantry, volunteer; Muzzey, Geo. E., 7th 
Infantry, drafted. 

Newland, Wm. H., 21st Infantry, volunteer; Nickerson, 
Hezekiah, ist Cavalry, volunteer; Nock, Sylvanus, 6th Battery, 
volunteer ; Noyes, Alonzo, 5th Infantry, volunteer. 

Oliver, Frank H., 15th Infantry, volunteer; Oliver, Fayette, 
3rd Infantry, volunteer. 

Paige, Ezekiel, Jr., 14th Infantry, volunteer ; Parker, John H., 
nth Infantry, substitute; Parker, Benj., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; 
Pattee, Orlando J., 21st Infantry, volunteer; Pattee, Orlando I., 
Coast Guards, volunteer; Peasley, Richard, 21st Infantry, vol- 
unteer; Peavey, John M., 9th Infantry, volunteer; Peavy, Wm. 
D., 3rd Infantry, volimteer; Penney, Chas. H., 21st Infantry, 
volunteer; Penney, Ira D., 31st Infantry, volunteer; Penney, 
Everett A.. 19th Infantry, volunteer; Penney, Wm. W., 15th 
Infantry, volunteer; Penney, Peltiah, 3rd Infantry, volunteer; 
Penney, Joseph M., 7th Infantry, volunteer ; Percival, Edw. S., 
3rd Infantry, volunteer; Percival, Albert W., U. S. A., volun- 
teer ; Percival, Henry H., LT. S. A., volunteer Percival, Geo. G., 
80th U. S. C. I., volunteer; Perkins, James L., 21st Infantry, 



WATKRVILLE TN THE WAR. 3I 

volunteer; Perley, Richard, 21st Infantry, volunteer; Perley, 
Nathaniel, 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Perley, Henry J., 3rd Infan- 
try, volunteer ; Perry, George, 8th Infantry, volunteer ; Perry, 
Chas., 8th Infantry, volunteer ; Perry, James, 3rd Infantry, vol- 
unteer ; Perry, Joseph, 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Perry, David, 
/th Infantry, volunteer; Phelps, Wm. H., 13th Infantry, vol- 
unteer; Pinkham. Andrew, 21st Infantry, volunteer; Plaisted, 
James H., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Plummer, Edwin, 21st 
Infantry, volunteer; Plummer, John H., 6th Battery, volunteer; 
Pooler, Henry, 30th Infantry, volunteer ; Pooler, Gott, 7th Infan- 
try, volunteer ; Pooler, Ephriam, 30th Infantry, volunteer ; 
Pooler, Joseph, ist Pleavy Artillery, volunteer; Pooler, Joseph, 
i6th Infantry, volunteer; Pooler, George, 29th Infantry, volun- 
teer ; Porter, John, 9th Infantry, volunteer ; Porter, Andrew H., 
6th Battery, volunteer ; Preo, Peter, 8th Infantry, volunteer ; 
Prescott, Edmund E., 21st Infantry, volunteer; Preson, Thos. 
E., Hancock's Corps, volunteer; Pulsifer, x-\lexander W., i6th 
Infantry, volunteer; Pullen, Frank D., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; 
Pullen, James Burney, 30th Infantry, volunteer. 

Ouimby, Clement, 5th Infantry, volunteer ; Quimby, Albert, 
30th Infantry, volunteer. 

Ranco, Moses, 8th Infantry, volunteer; Ranco, Abram, 9th 
Infantry, volunteer; Ranco, George, 31st Infantry, volunteer; 
Ranco, Joseph, loth Infantry, volunteer; Rankins, Lucius, 8th 
Infantry, volvuiteer ; Rankins, William, 20th Infantry, volun- 
teer ; Ray, Robert, U. S. Navy, substitute ; Richards, Joseph, 
2ist Infantry, volunteer; Ricker, James F., 3rd Infantry, volun- 
teer ; Roderick, John, 20th Infantry, volunteer ; Roderick, Peter, 
19th Infantry, volunteer; Rodgers, Edwin J., substitute; Ronco, 
Frank, 29th Infantry, volunteer ; Rowan, David, V. IS. ; Rowe, 
Elisha M., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Rowe, Welcome, 3rd 
Infantry, volunteer; Rowe, Addison H., 9th Infantry, volunteer; 
Roy, Eorenzo D., nth Infantry, substitute. 

Sands, Joseph, U. S. Navy, substitute ; Sawyer, James A., 
unassigned, volunteer; Savage, Stephen D., 17th Infantry, 
drafted; Savage, Miner W., 12th Massachusetts; Scammon, 
George S., nth Infantry, volunteer; Scates, Edgar, 20th Infan- 
try, volunteer; Shaw, Resolvo, 20th Infantry, volunteer; Shep- 



32 WATERVILLR IN THE WAR. 

herd, Alfred. 2ist Infantry, volnnteer ; Shepherd, Richard A., 
19th Infantry, drafted ; Sherbnrn, Jacob, 3rd Infantry, vohni- 
teer ; Shorey, Chas. R., 20th Infantry, vohmteer ; Shorey, Chas. 
R., 3rd Infantry, vohmteer ; Sharp, \Vm. J., 5th Battery ; vSimp- 
son, Joseph D., 20th Infantry, vohmteer ; Small, Abner R., 3rd 
Infantry, volunteer; Smart, John M., 21st Infantry, vohmteer; 
Smart, John M., Coast Guards, volunteer ; Smiley, Albert R., 
20th Infantry, volunteer ; Smiley, Chas. N., 20th Infantry, vol- 
unteer; Smiley, Frank O., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Smith, 
James P., i6th Infantry, volunteer; Smith, Lemuel H., 3rd 
Infantry, volunteer ; Smith, Allen, V. S., volunteer ; Soule, 
Martin B., i6th Infantry, volunteer ; Soule, John W., i6th 
Massachusetts, volunteer ; Soule, Josiah, 20th Infantry, volun- 
teer; Soule, Daniel A., 20th Infantry, volunteer; Southard, 
Cyrus, 2nd Cavalry, volunteer; Spaulding, Nathan F., 15th 
Infantry, volunteer; Stevens, William A., i6th Infantry, volun- 
teer ; Stevens, Gilbert G., 26th Co. Infantry, unassigned ; 
Stevens, Jason R., 7th Infantry, volunteer; Stevens, Wm. H., 
20th Infantry, volunteer; vStevens, Edwin C, i6th Infantry, vol- 
unteer; Stuart, Chas. H., 31st Infantry, volunteer; Sturtevant, 
Reward A., 20tli Infantry, volunteer. 

Tallouse, John, 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Tallouse, Martin, 
i6th Infantry, volunteer; Thayer, Samuel J., 21st Infantry, vol- 
unteer ; Thayer, Welcome. 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Thayer, 
Adin B., i6th Infantry, volunteer ; Thing, Henry A., 3rd Infan- 
try, volunteer; Thing, Chas. W., ist Infantry, volunteer; Thing, 
Chas. W., 14th Infantry, volunteer; Thing, George S., ist Dis- 
trict of Columbia Cavalry and ist Cavalry, volunteer; Thomas, 
John P. H., 2nd Cavalry, volunteer; Thomas, David S., i6th 
Infantry, volunteer; Thompson, James, 9th Infantry, volunteer; 
Thompson, Asa L., 4th E>attery, volunteer ; Thorn, James H., 
1st District of Columbia Cavalry and ist Cavalry, volunteer; 
Tilley, Geo. M., 31st Infantry, volunteer; Tozer, Henry M., 
20th Infantry, volunteer; Tozier, Walter N., 30th Infantry, vol- 
unteer; Tozier, Albert F., nth Infantry, volunteer; Tozier, 
Henry E., 8th Infantry, volunteer; Tracy, Geo. C, 5th Battery 
R. R. ; Trask, Alexander, 21st Infantry, volunteer; Trask, 
Elbridge, Coast Guards, volunteer. 



WATERVILLE IN THK WAR. 33 

Vigue, Levi, ist Cavalry, volunteer; Vigaie, Levi, 31st Infan- 
try, volunteer. 

Ward, N. A.. 17th Infantry, drafted; Watson, Andrew P., 
2ist Infantry, volunteer; Welch, Moses A., 31st Infantry, vol- 
unteer; Welch, James B., ist District of Columbia Cavalry and 
Tst Cavalry, volunteer; Wells, Howard W., i6th Infantry, vol- 
unteer ; West, W^allace W., 8th Infantry, volunteer ; W^est, 
James C, 31st Infantry, volunteer; Wheeler, Geo. L., 3rd 
Infantry, volunteer; Wheeler, John N., i6th Infantry, volun- 
teer; White, Henry, ist Cavalry, volunteer; Williams, Andrew 
J., 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, volunteer ; Wilson, Geo. 
A. 2ist Infantry, volunteer; Wilson, John B., g6th U. S. C. I., 
volunteer; Wingate, Henry, 14th Infantry, volunteer; Winslow, 
Hiram C, 2Jst Infantry, volunteer; Witham, Albert B., 4th 
Battery, voliuiteer ; Woodbury, David, 3rd L^ns. Co., R. R ; 
Woodman, Alvin B., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Woodman, Eras- 
tus W., 14th Infantry, United States Army, volunteer ; Wyman, 
Wm. W., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Wyman, Hiram, Coast 
Guards, volunteer; Wyman, Hiram R., 9th Infantry, volunteer; 
Wyman, Increase, 2nd Cavalry, volunteer; Wyman, W. W., 
2ist Infantry, volunteer: Wyman, Hiram, 21st Infantry, vol- 
unteer. 

Young, Eugene H., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Young, Roscoe 
G., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Young, Eben W., 3rd Infantry, vol- 
unteer ; Young, Laroy F.. 30th Infantry, volunteer; Young, 
John M.. 7th Infantry, volunteer. 



34 WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 



Recapitulation. 



Waterville furnished 525 soldiers during the Civil War, 
according to Adjutant-General's Report (page 24-1864-5) and 
yet the above list includes every name that can be found in town 
or State records, and numbers but 421. 

The great discrepancy between these figures and the credits 
allowed this town by the Adjutant-General, occurs in several 
ways : 

• First : Many non-residents and foreigners were enlisted and 
credited on the town's quota whose enlistment papers would 
show some other residence, and would thus only count in the 
summary of town credits. 

Second : A further discrepancy is caused by the commis- 
sioners of equalization refusing to credit the town ; men orig- 
inally placed to their credit, and in refusing to credit commis- 
sioned officers. 

All calls for men by the President prior to July 2nd, 1862, were 
filled by voluntary enlistments, promiscuously ; cities, towns and 
plantations not being called upon to furnish their proportional 
number of the State's allotment. 

Men enlisting prior to July 2nd, 1862, were not credited upon 
the quota of any city or town in the State, but were simply placed 
upon the lists of names and classified to the cities and towns in 
which they resided. 

Alaine furnished more than her allotment of men under the 
President's calls in 1861 and had great difficulty in inducing the 
Government to accept two of her regiments of infantry and the 
1st Maine Cavalry. Waterville furnished more than her share, 
but never received any credit for the excess. 

Of the list furnished the commissioners of equalization by the 
municipal officers of Waterville, they allowed 171 three years 
men, i two years man, 50 one year men, 42 nine months men. 

Making a total of 264 men subsequent to July 2, 1862, and 
allowed a credit for same of $19,883.33. 

Third : The town secured an additional credit for each re-en- 
listment, while but one name appears for the two. 

Fourth : The twenty-six "paper men" from Mr. 

through J. P. Deering & Company, for which Joseph Percival, 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 35 

1st selectman, paid $11,050, and ten ''paper men" from Pike & 
Colby, for which Mr. Percival paid $4,250. 

As this brings up the whole corruption of the "Paper credit" 
scandal, some explanation is necessary. 

When the question of strengthening the armies of the Union 
was a simple one, of life or death with the Government, certain 
well known substitute brokers appeared in Augusta with lists 
of names which they claimed were those of men already in ser- 
vice not assigned to any quota. 

These were offered to ofificers and agents of towns and munici- 
palities of Maine who were booking for iiicii to fill their quota 
and re-enforce our depleted Regiments. Where these substi- 
tute brokers obtained these lists of names ; — by what villainous 
connivance and corruption the necessary authority was procured 
to enable the proper officers to certify officially to municipal 
officers on their quotas, hundreds of names of men who never 
existed, — without residence as required by law, without date of 
enlistment ; — to certify even to two, ten or twenty recruits to a 
town without a)iy names, — will never be known. 

No one will ever know how much money the cities and towns 
of Maine were swindled out of by these ghouls of living and 
dead soldiers, because no one will ever know how many "paper 
men" were sold to them ; but the commissioners, report "an 
aggregate of 1.380 after deducting the '251 list' said to have 
been gratuitously distributed by the Governor of Maine." 

Mr. Pike, the member of Congress from the 5th District, 
speaking in the debate in the National Plouse of Representa- 
tives in February, 1865, on this matter, said; "But worse than 
this : — credits have been given by these States when no men have 
e'Z'cr been furnished, cnyzviiere, by anybody." 

"Bold frauds !" "Paper men have been substituted for sailors, 
and up to this time 50% more sailors have been credited to the 
different states than there are in the Navy altogether." 

Under date of Sept. ist, 1864, Provost Marshal Gen. Frye, 
writes to Major Gardner, A. A. P. Marshal General at Augusta: 
"On examination of the records of the navy, I find only 158 men 
have been enlisted in the State of Maine during the Rebellion ! I 
desire to call your attention to this fact;" and yet in December, 



36 WATER\'1LLE IN THE WAR, 

same year, he approves and gives authenticity to the "251 Hst," 
from one vessel, — the Ohio. 

In Provost Marshal General's criticism of our Commissioners' 
Report he writes: "It looks like sharp practice, to say the least 
of it, for the authorities in Maine to have sought and accepted 
paper credits and to have openly and voluntarily paid large sums 
of money to scoundrels for their part in preparing them/' 

This is one of the stereotyped excuses of the gang. 

Speaking of the "251 list"' of Mr. , the Committee 

say: "The men were not residents of Maine, or aliens enlisted 
here, and there was no law or general order by which they could 
be put to the credit of towns in Maine ;" and again, "Perhaps it 
is fairly inferable from what we have of Mr. 's testi- 
mony, that he had some agency in procuring this 'Special Order.' 

"It turned out that he had a very strong personal interest in 
procuring such, for he seems to have sold to Deering & Company, 
alone, 121 of these men {names) for $47,400; and if he sold the 
rest at the same rate, his gross sales must have amounted to more 
than $100,000." ("Paper Credits" by Hon. George F. Talbot 
and Gen. Selden Connor, Commissioners, under "Resolves of the 
I.egislature" approved March 24, 1870.) 

GOVERNMENT CALLS. 

Under the President's call of April 15, 1861, for 75,000 militia 
for three months, the quota of Maine was 780; men furnished, 
771. 

Call of May 2, 1861, for 500,000 men, quota of Maine was 
17,560; men furnished for three years, 18,104. 

Call of July 2, 1862, for 300,000 men for three years, quota of 
Maine, 9,609 ; men furnished, 6,644. 

Call of August 4, 1862, for 300,000 militia for nine months: 
Quota of Maine, 9,609 ; men furnished, 7,620. 

Calls of October 17, 1863, (embracing men raised by draft of 
1863) and February i, 1864, for 500,000 for three years : Quota 
of Maine, 11,803; ^^^n furnished, 11,958; paid commutation, 
1,986; total, 13,944. 

Call of March 14, 1864, for 200,000 men for three years; 
Quota of Maine, 4,721 ; men furnished, 7,042. 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 37 

Call of Tilly 18, 1864, for 500,000 men (reduced by excess of 
credits on previous calls) : Quota of IMaine, 11,116; men fur- 
nished, 11,042; paid commutation, 11 ; total, 11,053. 

Call of December 10, 1864, for 300,000 men : Quota of 
Maine, 8,389 ; men furnished, 6,936. 

Under these eight calls there were furnished by the difierent 
states and territories more men than were ever put into the field 
by any nation in the history of the world, as will be seen by the 
following summary : 

MEN FURNISHED DURING THE WAR. 

( 1 ) Total number 2,778,304 

To army 2,672,341 

To navy 105,963 

(2) Estimated total number of re-enlistments 564,939 

In army 543.393 

In navy 21,546 

(3) Estimated total number of desertions 121,896 

From army 11 7,247 

From navy 4^649 

(4) Total number of deaths 364,116 

In army 359^528 

In navy 4.588 

(5) Estimated total niunber of individuals in ser- 

vice 2,213,365 

In armv 2,128,948 

In navy 84.417 

(6) Estimated total number of survivors at termin- 

ation of service (deserters excluded) 1-727,353 

In army 1,652,173 

In navy 75.180 

Estimated total number of survivors ( deserters 

excluded) June 30, 1902 930,380 

Estimated average age of survivors at close of the 

war 28 years. 

According to the mortality tables, 355,091 have died since 
1890, and the average mortality will be about the same until the 
year 1925, although the percentage among the survivors rapidly 
increases. 



38 WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 

In 1930 there will remain 37,033 ; in 1935 there will remain 
6,296; in 1940 there will remain 340; in 1945 there will be no 
survivor of the War of the Rebellion. 



TOTAL NUMBT;R OP MEN BURNISHED BY THE STATE OE MAINE 
DURING THE WAR. 

In 186T. 
15 Regiments Infantry, i Cavalry, 6 Batteries JNIounted 
Artillery, i Company Sharpshooters, 3 Companies 
for Coast Fortifications, Recruits, etc 16,669 

In 1862. 
12 Regiments Infantry, I Regiment Heavy Artillery, 

Recruits, etc 15,690 

In 1863. 
2 Regiments Infantry, 2 Cavalry, t Battery of Artillery, 

Volunteers and Drafted men 10,223 

In 1864-5. 
2 Regiments Infantry, 30 Companies Unassigned Infan- 
try, 6 Companies Sharpshooters, 3 Companies 
Coast Guards, Drafted men and Navy 30,363 

72,945 

Maine sent this great army of her sons to the field, sealed with 
the traditions of their ancestors for courage and devotion ; boys 
half of them, who passed straight from their mother's arms to 
the embrace of war. 

There they left more than 7,000 of their number in known and 
unknown graves, among the hills and valleys of the South ; 
buried where they fell ; buried from the hospitals in camp and 
field or from the great hospitals of the cities, despite the devotion 
of heroic women ; buried from the prison pens of the South, 
where they perished so miserably of exposure, starvation, deli- 
rium and despair ; husbands, fathers, lovers, sons, comrades, 
friends ; the patriotic, the brave, the true. 



WATCRVILLE IN THE WAR. 39 

They are our uncalendared heroes. The language of their 
lives is written in the annals of our country. They helped with 
point of sword or bayonet to pen a chapter in American history 
that will be read while patriotism is honored or liberty cherished. 

:J; --i: -If. -'f -.l; ;': :i: :'; :(; 

Lowell speaks of the heroes of the Civil War as marching 

"on a shining track 

heroes mustered in a gleaming row, 



Beautiful evermore, and with the rays 

Of morn on their white shields of expectation.' 



BOUNTIES. 



The I St Regiment of Infantry was enlisted for two years, 
though mustered into the United States service for three months 
only. The $22 bounty was paid to this organization. The 2nd 
Regiment of Infantry was enlisted and mustered into the United 
States service for two years, and received only the same State 
bounty as the ist Regiment. Having originally some two hun- 
dred more men than the First, and recruits who enlisted when 
large bounties were paid, the aggregate amount of State bounty 
paid it, is much more than that to the First. 

The 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th Regiments of Infantry 
were enlisted and mtistered into the United States service for 
three years. They received the $22 State bounty at their muster 
into service. The re-enlisted men and some recruits of 1864 for 
those regiments received $300 State bounty. Recruits of 1862 
and 1863 for those regiments received $55 State bounty. 

The loth Regiment was designed to be a re-organization of 
the 1st Regiment, which owed twenty-one months service to the 
government. The few men of the ist Regiment who recognized 
their continuing liability to government under their enlistment, 
received no State bounty at the muster into United States ser- 
vice of this regiment ; the remainder were paid the State bounty 
of $22. Fifty-five dollars State bounty was paid to recruits for 
three years service who were assigned to this regiment. 

The nth, i2th, 13th, 14th, and 15th Regiments of Infantry 
received no State bounty whatever. The amounts exhibited as 



40 WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 

paid to them were received by their recruits and re-enlisted men, 
in sums of from $55 to $300. 

Th i6th, 17th, i8th. TQth and 20th Regiments of Infantry 
were paid a State bounty of $45. Recruits for these re§:iments 
were paid from $55 to $300 State bounty, except the i8th, which 
early ceased to exist as an infantry organization, and became the 
1st Heavy Artillery, the recruits for which, as will be seen, were 
paid less than $100,000, mostly in $55 bounties. 

The 2ist, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th Regi- 
ments of Infantry were enlisted and mustered into the United 
States service for nine months, and were paid no State bounty. 

The 29th and 30th Regiments of Infantry received $100 State 
bounty. 

The 31st and 32nd Regiments of Infantry were paid from $100 
to $300 State bounty, their organization extending over the 
period during which these widely varying State bounties of from 
$100 to $300 were authorized. These regiments received but 
very few recruits. Two of the unassigned companies were 
incorporaed into the 31st Regiment. 

The 1st Veteran Regiment of Infantry w^as composed largely 
of the recruits and re-enlisted men of the 5th, 6th and 7th Regi- 
ments of Infantry, who had received from $55 to $300 State 
bounty. Enlistments in this regiment proper were paid from 
$100 to $300 State bounty. 

The ist Regiment of Heavv Artillery is alluded to above. 

The 1st Regiment of Cavalry was paid no State bounty at its 
muster mto the United States service. The amount shown w'as 
paid its recruits and re-enlisted men in State bounties of from 
$55 to $300 each. 

The 2nd Regiment of Cavalry was paid $100 State bounty, 
generally, though some few of the men received more. Its 
organization was commenced with a State bounty of $100, but 
before it was mustered mto the United States service, $300 was 
authorized. 

The 1st Regiment of D. C, or Baker's Cavalry, was being 
enlisted from the authorization of $55 bounties to those of $300, 
though most of the men were paid $100 State bounty. 

The first six batteries of Mounted Artillery received no bounty 
from the State. Their recruits and re-enlisted men were paid 
from $55 to $300 State bounty. 



WATERVILLK IN THE WAR. 4I 

The 7th Battery received from $100 to $300 State bounty. 

Coast Guards and unassigned companies received from $100 
to S300 State bounty. The most of these companies were 
assigned to regiments in the field. 

Hancock's Corps received $100 State bounty. 

I St Battalion Sharpshooters received from $100 to $300 State 
bounty. 

Co. D, 2nd Regiment U. S. Sharpshooters, received ^22 State 
bounty, and recruits and re-enlisted men from $55 to $300 each. 
United States' organizations, and those of other states, received 
from $55 to $300 State bounty. 

The State paid for actual naval enlistments made subsequent 
to February 2, 1864, of our own citizens duly credited to locali- 
ties in this State, bounties of $100, $200 and $300, for one, two, 
or three years' service, except as stipulated in order of Novem- 
ber. 1864, confirmed by subsequent statute, that not exceeding 
$100 should be paid for any period of enlistment not less than 
one year, if place of recruit's credit had filled all calls without 
him. This order also applied to enlistments for land service in 
Maine organizations, as also for those of the government and 
other states. 

All these State bounty payments were made only for new bona 
fide enlistments, when the enlistment contract, and descriptive 
and muster-in-rolls were duly filed in the adjutant general's 
office, and when entering organizations other than those of Maine 
volunteers, in addition to the foregoing papers, the place of credit 
in this State was dul}' certified by the proper ofiicer having offi- 
cial knowledge of the enlistment and credit. 

Citizens of this State enlisted in the navy to the credit of local- 
ities herein, subsequent to February 2, 1864, though credited only 
by the "commission," were paid State bounty under the statute 
if, in addition to the receipts in duplicate invariably required, the 
enlistment and other papers above specified were filed in the 
adjutant general's office. It will be observed that a smaller 
amount of State bounty was paid the original members of the 
entire first ten regiments of infantry and company of sharp- 
shooters, the most of whom were mustered into United States 
service for three }ears, than was received by a single regiment 



42 WATERVILLE IN THE \\'AR. 

of infantry two years later for a like enlistment, but a shorter 
period of service as eventually proved. The original members 
of thirteen regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry, and 
six batteries of mounted artillery, were paid no State bounty. 
The original members of five regiments of infantry received $45 
each. The entire State bounties paid the original members of 
twenty-eight of our infantry regiments, from the ist to the 28th 
inclusive, the ist Cavalry, and first six batteries of Mounted 
Artillery, amounted to only about $400,000. All of the re-en- 
listed men of those organizations (some 4,000 in number received 
$300 each. State bounty, and some of them a large local bounty 
in addition thereto, although the same was prohibited by the 
statute. Many members of the eight regiments for nine months' 
service are found among the recruits of old regiments in 1864, 
and received liberal State and local bounties. The same is found 
to be the case with members of the two "two years" regiments, 
and a large number of those of other regiments of 1861 and 1862, 
who were discharged for disability, and upon their recovery 
enlisted into our old and new organizations and were paid liberal 
bounties. 



THE PERIOD OF THE WAR. 

It is not generally known that the War of the Rebellion did not 
begin or close at the same time in all the states. The dates of 
the commencement and the termination of that war indicated in 
the opinion of the supreme court of the United States in the case 
of "The Protector" which is reported in 12 Wallace, 700. 
and is in substance, that the proclamation of the intended block- 
ade by the President may be assumed as marking the first of 
these dates, and the proclamation that the war had closed, as 
marking the second. 

There were two proclamations of intended blockade ; the first 
of the 19th of April, 1861, embracing the states South Carolina, 
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, ]\Iississippi, Louisiana, and Texas ; — 
the second of the 27th of April. 1861, embracing the states of 
Virgiiiia and North Carolina; — and there were two proclama- 
tions declaring that the war had closed ; — one issued on the 2nd 
of April, 1866, embracing the states of Virginia, North Caro- 



WATKRVTLLE IN THE WAR. 43 

lina, South Carolina, Georgia. Florida, ]\Iississippi, Tennessee, 
Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkansas, and the other issued on the 
20th of August, 1866, embracing the state of Texas. 

In the absence of more certain criteria, of equally general 
application we must take the dates of these proclamations as 
determining the commencement and the close of the war in the 
states mentioned in them. 



WATERVILLE SOLDIERS MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. 

Many of our citizens still living will recall the terrible days of 
the war ; when battle was on and victory hung in the balance ; 
when care for the sick and wounded, and honoring the dead, was 
the duty and desire of all the living, — that even then a few of 
our patriotic citizens inaugurated a plan to raise funds for the 
erection of a suitable monument to perpetuate the memory of our 
dead soldiers. 

The inception and successful prosecution of this plan is due 
to the patriotism and untiring energy of Mr. G. A. Phillips, as 
to him more than any man living here to-day or who has ever 
lived here is due the present prosperity of Waterville. 

The following facts, copied from the records of the Waterville 
Monument Association, will interest our older citizens, and 
should interest the younger. 

"On the evening of the 14th of March, 1S64, a concert was 
given in this village, the proceeds of which, by previous 
announcement, were to be donated in aid of erecting a suitable 
monument to the memory of our soldiers who had fallen in 
defence of the Union, or who should thereafter lose their lives in 
the same patriotic service. 

The names of these performers, which all will agree should 
appear upon the first page of this record, were : Mrs. J. E. Dow, 
Miss A. M. Bates, Miss C. M. Barney, Miss L. S. Carroll, Aliss 
E. Piper, Miss H. C. Marston, Miss S. E. Ransted, Mr. Wm. A. 
Caffrey, Mr. S. C. Marston, Mr. J. R. Pitman, Mr. G. A. Phillips. 

During the intermission, a proposition to form a permanent 
organization for the more speedy and certain accomplishment of 
the work was introduced ; and after some explanations and dis- 



44 WATER VILLE IN THE WAR. 

cussion. a committee was chosen to prepare a plan of organiza- 
tion, to be submitted at a future meeting-, with a list of officers, 
etc. The following gentlemen were put upon this committee : 

J. Nye, J. B. Foster. G. A. Phillips, E. G. Header, and CM. 
Morse. 

A second concert in aid of this object was given by the same 
individuals on the evening of the 23rd of the same month, at 
which time the committee named above reported a constitution, 
which was unanimously adopted. The following list of candi- 
dates was also presented, and after the adoption of the constitu- 
tion, they were chosen to the several offices for v/hich they were 
severally designated. 

G. A. Phillips, president ; Wm. A. Caffrey, vice-president ; 
Daniel R. Whig, secretary; Geo. L. Robinson, treasurer; Jones 
R. Elden. E. G. Meader, C. M. Morse, trustees. 

Article 2 of the constitution reads as follows: "The object 
of this association shall be to procure the erection, at such time 
and in such place within the town as shall hereafter be desig- 
nated, of a suitable monument in honor of those of our fellow- 
citizens, residents of Waterville, who shall have died in the mili- 
tary or naval service of the United States during the present 
war." 

Appended to the constitution are the names of ninety-two 
persons. 

A second benefit concert was given in 1865 and efrorts were 
made to secure a contribution of one dollar from each citizen 
for the association. 

Here occurs a hiatus of nearly ten years, or from November 
29, 1865, to Ji-^ne 14, 1875, during which there is no record of any 
kind, nor any explanation of the interregnum. 

There were doubtless good reasons, and the first that suggests 
itself is the effervescence of zeal, as this has occurred in the his- 
tory of many commemorative monuments; but the purpose was 
fixed in the minds of good men and the funds drawing interest. 

In 1875 the fund with accumulated interest amounted to 
$1,000, this with the $1,000 voted by the town made $2,000 avail- 
able for the purpose of the association. The meeting of the 
association at which such report was made was t!ic last incctiiig 




BREVET BRIG. GEN. FRANCIS E. HEATH. 



WATERVILLE IN THE) WAR. 45 

held ill the old ioivn hall before it was remodeled. This fact 
Secretary Daniel R. Wing thought was worthy of permanent 
record. The committee to submit plans and estimates for a 
monument was as follows : Col. F. E. Heath, Dr. Atwood 
Crosby, Edwm Noyes, Reuben P'oster, J. H. Plaisted. 

This committee recommended the purchase of Milmore's 
"Citizen Soldier"' in bronze, the price to be $2,000. This recom- 
mendation was accepted and a committee consisting of the offi- 
cers of the association, Edwin Noyes, Col. I. S. Bangs and J. H. 
Plaisted, was appointed to procure a suitable monument upon 
which to place the statue. 

The committee to locate the monument consisted of Nathaniel 
Header, E. R. Emerson, Miss Florence Plaisted, Miss Roxana 
Hanscom, Dr. Crosby and Mrs. Crosby, C. G. Carleton, M. C. 
Foster, C. K. Mathews, C. R. McFadden, F. P. Haviland, P. S. 
Heald, Reuben Foster, W. B. Arnold, Prof. E. W. Hall, Prof. 
M. Lyford, A. A. Plaisted and Mrs. Plaisted, Dr. N. R. Boutelle 
and Mrs. Boutelle, E. B. Cummings, E. F. Webb and the officers 
of the association. 

The following inscriptions were accepted. On the Elm street 
front, "To the memory of the Soldiers and Sailors of Waterville 
who gave their lives for the preservation of the Republic 1861- 
1865." On the opposite front, "Erected by the citizens of 
Waterville." 

In order to raise the balance of the money needed for the mon- 
ument the ladies of the committee decided to have an entertain- 
ment on two evenings, the i6th and 17th of May, 1876, the first 
evening to consist of an antiquarian supper and concert ; the 
second of music, tableaux, free lunch, presentation of flag to 
G. A. R. Post, by the ladies, etc. And this was ratified by the 
association. 

The entertainments were a grand success, in every way, and 
will be long remembered with pleasure b}- those present. A full 
account will be found in the Mail of May 19, 1876. Three hun- 
dred and fifty dollars were added to the funds of the association. 

The Waterville Soldiers' Monument was dedicated with appro- 
priate ceremonies on Memorial day, Tuesday, May 30, 1876. 
Col. F. E. Heath acted as marshal ; the Waterville brass band 
furnished the music ; the members of W. S. Heath Post, G. A. R.,. 



46 WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 

joined in the procession, with VVaterville 3 Engine Company, 
Ticonic I, Appleton Hook and Ladder Company and the Colbv 
Rifles did escort duty. These formed in procession on the Com- 
mon, and with the officers of the association in carriages and 
citizens following, marched through the streets to Monument 
Park, where prayer was offered by Rev. C. D. Crane ; a financial 
statement and the Roll of Honor were read by Mr. G. A. Phillips, 
the president ; the monument was imveiled ; an oration delivered 
by Mr. L. Stevens. Esq., of Portland ; a poem read by A. L. 
Hinds, Esq., of Benton, and a hymn sung by a select choir. 

The Roll of Honor, deposited beneath the monument, with a 
list of the officers, etc., is as follows : 

Benjamin C. Allen, William H. Aderton, Charles R. Atwood, 
David Bates, Charles Bowen, William H. Bowen, Elijah Ballan- 
tvne, George W. Bowman, Jr., Joseph Oren Brackett, Bennett 
Bickford, George A. E. Blake, William Barrett, Hiram Cochran, 
Alonzo Copp, William Chapman, Isaac W. Clark, Charles Clark, 
Lorenzo D. Clark, Albert Corson, William H. DeWolfe, Octa- 
vius A. Davis, Hadley P. Dyer, Stephen Ellis, Dighton Ellis, 
Pawlette Euarde, Charles A. Farrington, Hiram Fish, 
Thomas A. Gibbs, David B. Gibbs. George C. Getchell, Edward 
B. Herbert, William S. Heath, William H. Ham, Algernon P. 
Herrick, Albro Hubbard, Joseph Jerow, John O. James, Moses 
King, Charles F. Lyford, William H. Marston, Alvin Messer, 
John N. Messer, Orren Messer, Lewis Murray, Joseph M. Pen- 
ney, William W. Penney, Pelatiah Penney, Ira D. Penney, 
Richard Perley, William H. Phelps, James B. Pullen, Henry 
Pooler, Edwin Plummer, Edward E. Prescott, Albert Quimby, 
James F. Ricker, Peter Roderick, Miner W. Savage, Joseph D. 
Simpson, Richard A. Shepherd, W. A. Stevens, Edwin C. 
Stevens, Gilbert G. Stevens, Jason R. Stevens, Adin B. Thayer, 
George Tilley, Martin Tallow, Henry E. Tozier, Wallace W. 
West, James O. West, Erastus D. Woodman, George L. Wheeler, 
John M. Wheeler, Henry White, \\'illiam W. Wyman, Eben W. 
Young, Roscoe G. Young. (The name of Wm. H. Bacon 
should have been added to this list as he died here in 1862). 
(L S. B.) 

The financial statement submitted by President Phillips read 
as follows : "We have received from all sources, since our asso- 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 4/ 

ciation was org-anized, $2,772.84 ; we have expended ,for filling 
and grading, $76.90 ; for plans for pedestal, $25.00 ; for freight 
on statne, $16.18; for pedestal, including foundation, $982.75; 
for bronze statue, $1,600.00; total expenditure. $2,700.83; 
balance in treasury, $72.01. 

Daniel R. Wing, Secretary. 
The number of persons who were members of the Monument 
Association was 239. 

W. S. HEATH POST NO. 14. DEPARTMENT OF MAINE. G. A. R. 

The Grand Army of the Republic was founded by Dr. B. F. 
Stevenson of Springfield, 111., in 1866. 

Dr. Stevenson devoted the best years of his life to his grand 
idea of a brotherhood of old soldiers, to perpetuate the memories 
of the camp, the march and the battlefield, and to perpetuate the 
memory and history of the dead. Could he have lived to see the 
day, what a tribute to his prophetic vision, what a reward for his 
labor, would have been the increasing numbers of his comrades 
till they reached the high water mark of 400.000 in 1888 to 1892 ; 
these recruited from the men who served as citizen soldiers and 
as soldier citizens with equal credit in war and peace ! 

The Grand Army of the Republic symbolizes fraternity, charity 
and loyalty. It stands for American manhood. It epitomizes 
the heroism of a Nation. It is the trustee of patriotism. 

Memorial Day is their creation and they who love liberty must 
succeed them in their annual pilgrimage to the shrines of their 
dead when their last member shall have passed beyond our feeble 
following. 

W. S. Heath Post, No. 14, Department of Maine, G. A. R., 
was organized in 1874 and chartered December 29th of the same 
year, under the administration of Department Commander Gen- 
eral Seldon Connor, with the following charter members ; 

* Atwood Crosby, * F. E. Heath, I. S. Bangs, - J. H. Plaisted, 
O. F. Mayo, * Levi A. Dow, A. P. Webb, - Addison Dolly, 

* Sidney Keith, Redford M. Estes, Alpheus S. Webber, John 
U. Hubbard, George W. Hubbard, Henry J. Goulding, George 
W. Goulding, E. P. Buck, W. H. Emery, W. H. Russell, R. T. 
Beazley, * G. A. Osborne, James W. King, * Moses J. Kelley, 

* Charles W. Lowe, E. N. Small, G. T. Stevens, A. M. Sawtelle. 



48 WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 

The Post was named by these veterans after Lieutenant 
Colonel W. S. Heath of the 5th Maine Infantry, who was killed 
at the battle of Gaines Mill. 

Its first commander was General * Francis E. Heath, and he 
was succeeded by General I. S. Bangs, Dr. * Atwood Crosby, 
G. H. A'lathews, Captain * Charles Bridges, A. O. Libby, * J. G. 
Stover, Dr. D. P. Stowell, N. vS. Emery, George W. Reynolds, 
S. S. Vose, George A. Wilson, P. S. Heald, J. L. Merrick, F. D. 
Lunt, E. Gilpatrick, A. E. Ellis, Captain J. P. Garland, J. H. 
Coombs, O. P. Richardson, Captain Silas Adams, H. C. Proctor, 
and J. R. Pollard. 

The Post has on its roll of membership 195 names. 

Death, emigration, and other causes have reduced its mem- 
bership to fifty-seven, but it is still one of the vigorous, active 
Posts of the order, and is doing a noble charitable work, looking 
with great fidelity after the necessities of sick and disabled com- 
rades, their widows and orphans, whether members of their 
organization or not. 

If it performed no other duty, it would commend itself to the 
charitable and humane, but in a higher sphere of influence, it is 
an organized exemplar of loyalty, by the service of its members 
to the land they helped to save, and a lesson in loyalty to the 
generation that are to follow them. 

January 30. 1891, Hon. Nahaniel Meader, then Mayor of the 
city of Waterville, presented to the Post a very beautiful record 
book, especially designed for recording the name and military 
history of its members. 

It has taken the writer and Comrade A. O. Libbey of the com- 
mittee, five or six years to secure the names and record of 105 
of these members from Waterville and Winslow, verify them, 
have them re-written and engrossed in the great book. 

The labors of the committee are finished, and the record — the 
lasting memorial to her patriotic sons, is to be presented to the 
city of Waterville as soon as a depository is provided for its safe 
keepmg. 

The Post has had leading place and influence in all observ- 
ances of a patriotic character, has made its campfires schools of 
* Deceased 



^^•ATERVILLI; IN THK WAR. 49 

parriotism, has furnished to the Department of Maine, Com- 
mander Gen. I. S. Bangs and Commander James L. Merrick. It 
has pleasant headquarters in Masonic block which are always 
open. The \\'oman's Relief Corps has added greatly to the com- 
fort and efficiency of the Post. 

Since its organization, the Post has paid its annual tribute of 
respect to the memory of dead comrades whose graves are within 
its jurisdiction in Waterville and Winslow. 

The number of these is so rapidly augmenting, that they 
already number nearly three times the Post membership, and will 
increase until all have joined the ranks of the great army of the 
dead, to take up their march imder the loving eye and guiding 
hand, to which we confidentlv commit them. 



THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 

The Revolutionary War commenced with the battle of Lex- 
ington, April 19, 1775. Provisional articles of peace were 
signed, November 30. 1782, and proclamation of cessation of 
hostilities ordered by the Continental Congress, April 11, 1783. 
Definite treaty of peace was concluded, September 3, 1783, 
ratified by the Continental Congress and proclaimed, January 
14, 1784. 

BVom a report of the Secretary of War to the House of Repre- 
sentatives, dated May 10, 1790, and published in American State 
Papers, Military Affairs, Volume I, pages 14 to 19, it appears 
that the number of troops and militia furnished from time to 
time by the several states during the Revolutionary War was 
395,330. It is impossible to ascertain whether the figures, which 
are given in the report for each year of the war, and which aggre- 
gate 395,330 for the whole period of the war, represent only the 
number of new enlistments each year, or whether they include 
not only men who enlisted during each year but also those who 
were in the service at some time during that year but who 
enlisted during a prior year. In other words, it cannot be deter- 
mined positively whether the figures for each year merelv rep- 
resent additions to the force during that year, or w^hether they 
represent these additions together with the force remaining in 
4 



50 WATERVILLE IN THK WAR. 

service from a prior year. It is certain that, in either case, they 
do not represent the total number of individuals in service in any 
year, or the total number of individuals added to the force in 
any year, because there must have been many duplications caused 
by counting the same man over again for each successive enlist- 
ment. It is well known that a very large proportion of the men 
who served in the American army during the Revolutionary 
War rendered two, three or more terms, or "tours" of service. 
This was notably the case in militia organizations in which men 
frequently served tours of a few days each at comparatively short 
intervals. 

The writer feels it unnecessary to apologize for the meager 
incidents that serve to connect this generation with events of a 
century and more ago. 

The time for detail was passed when the old Revolutionary 
soldiers passed away and their families were separated. 

Their military history was carefully preserved by the Com- 
monwealth of Massachusetts, and if identity could be established, 
a biographical sketch might be written that would confer credit 
upon the soldier and his biographer. 

The writer presents the most and the best sketch of these old 
worthies possible who went from Waterville (then Winslow) 
or came here after the war and found a home and a final resting 
place here or in the immediate vicinity. 

RKCORDS OF SERVICE IN THE REVOLUTION. 

Captain Dean Bangs, grandfather of Isaac Sparrow Bangs, 
was born May 31, 1756, in Harwich (now Brewster), Cape Cod, 
Mass. He married April 21, 1780, Eunice Sparrow, daughter 
of Isaac, son of Jonathan, son of Jonathan, son of Jonathan, who 
married Hannah, daughter of Gov. Thomas Prence and Patience, 
daughter of Elder Brewster. 

He "followed the sea" as boy and man for forty years ; became 
mate and master in the East India trade, was a privateer in the 
first year of the War of the Revolution, and then enlisted in 
Abijah Bangs' company, Colonel Dike's regiment in 1776 and 
served two years. 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 5 1 

In 1802 he came to Sidney and bought a large tract of land 
on the Kennebec river and there lived and reared a large family. 
\\'aterville was his mercantile home and here he raised a com- 
pany of artillery during the War of 1812 for Major Joseph 
Chandler's Battalion of Artillery, and marched to /\ugusta with 
the other companies of the Waterville contingent. He died, 
December 6, 1845, '^"'^ ^^^s buried in a private cemetery on his 
own farm in a beautiful spot overlooking the Kennebec river, 
where lie several of his family, including his wife and one son. 

The cemetery is enclosed bv a permanent granite and iron 
fence, and in this enclosure near Captain Bangs' grave is a ceno- 
taph in memory of his father, whose military record is inscribed 
as follows : 

To the memory of 
ELKANAH BANGS, 
(father of Dean Bangs), 
who was in the privateer service of the Revolution ; was taken 
prisoner with three of his neighbors, and died on board the Jersey 
prison ship at Wallabout Bay, New York, in July, 1777, aged 
44 years ; this 

CENOTAPH 

is respectfully dedicated by his great-grandson, Isaac Sparrow, 
son of Isaac Sparrow, son of Dean Bangs, who settled upon this 
farm in the year 1802. 

Thomas Bates: Corporal, Capt. John Gibb's Co., Col. Eben- 
ezer Sprout's Regt. ; service from December 8 to December 10, 
1776, two days, marched to Falmouth on an alarm at Elizabeth 
Islands : Roll dated at Wareham : 

Also, Private Capt. Samuel Brigg's Co., Col. Theophilis Cot- 
ton's Regt., General Palmer's Brigade; service 32 days on a 
secret expedition to Tiverton, R. I., September 29, 1777. (Do. 
Vol. I, page 803.) 

Also, Capt. Gibb's Co. (4th Plymouth), Col. Sprout's Regt., 
service from September 6 to September 10, 1778, 5 days, 
marched to Dartmouth on an alarm : 

Also, pay roll for five days' service from September 13, 1778, 
marched to Falmouth on an alarm : 



52 WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 

Also, Capt. Gibb's (4th Plymouth) Co., Lt.-Col. White's Regt. 

Thomas Bates: EnHsted July 31, 1780, discharged August 
9, 1780, service nine days at Rhode Island: Roll sworn to at 
Wareham. (Ibid. Vol. I, page 804). 

Thomas Bates: Sergeant, Capt. Joseph Parker's Co., Col. 
Ebenezer Sprout's Regiment : Muster roll dated February 13, 
1778: Enlisted January 9, 1778, enlisted for three months from 
January i, 1778; stationed at Rhode Island. 

Also, Capt. John Gibb's Co., Col. John Jacobs' Regiment: 
Enlisted July 23, 1780, discharged October 27, 1780; service 
three months, six days on an alarm at Rhode Island : Enlist- 
ment three months; company raised to reinforce Continental 
Army: Roll dated Wareham. (Ibid. Vol. I, page 804.) 

Was a pensioner and lived in Waterville in 1840. Date of 
death, and burial place imknown. 

John Cole: Appears with rank of Private (on Continental 
Army pay accounts, Captain Redding's company, 5th) in Col. 
Bradford's regiment for service from March 8, 1777, to Decem- 
ber 31, 1779. Residence, Winslow, Me. Vol. :i4 :2 :74. 

He appears with rank of Private on Continental Army pay 
accounts of Capt. Haskell's company, Col. Bradford's regiment, 
for service from January i, 1780, to March 8, 1780. Residence, 
Winslow. Vol. :i4:i:35. 

He appears in Capt. John Samont's company. Colonel Gamaliel 
Bradford's (1:5th) regiment Massachusetts line from Winslow. 
Was pensioned in 1818. He moved to Albion about 1814 and 
died there January 11, 1824. His age unknown, but probably 
less than seventy vears. His widow, Polly Cole, on papers 
signed by her July 7, 1835, alleges her age then as seventy-one. 

John Cool: Appears with rank of Private on Continental 
Army pay accounts of Capt. Se well's company. Colonel Sprout's 
regiment for service from March 12, 1777, to December 31, 1779. 
Residence, Winslow, also given in Capt. Josiah Jenkins company. 
Col. Brewer's regiment, dated. Camp near Valley Forge, January 
23,1778. Vol. :i2:2:79:io:3i9. 

Was discharged at Fishkill, N. Y., March 12th, 1780, having 
served full three years ; his term of enlistment. He alleged on 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR, 53 

a paper dated May 26, 1835, that he was then seventy-eight years 
old and had Hved in Waterville (Winslow) seventy years. He 
lived on Cool street, which after his death was named for him. 
He died October 5, 1845, aged eighty-nine years, six months, 
and was buried in the old cemetery and afterwards removed to 
Pine Grove cemetery. 

Levi Crozvcll: Born, reared and enlisted on Cape Cod. After 
the war drifted "down east" to Winslow (that part in which is 
now Oakland) with Elisha and Solomon Hallett. Date of death 
unknown. Buried in old cemetery, Oakland. 

ManoaJi Cron'cU: Was pensioned in 1834 for service in the 
Massachusetts militia, but his name is not to be found in Massa- 
chusetts records. He was said to be seventy-one years old in 
1835, but is put down at seventy-eight in 1840, when he was 
living m Waterville (now Oakland) and drawing his pension 
there. 

The date of his death is unknown, but he was a soldier in the 
War of 1812. 

John Davis: xA.ppears with rank of private on muster roll of 
Capt. Jeremiah Hill's company, Col. Scammon's regiment, dated 
August I, 1775. Enlisted May 5, 1775. Time of service, 
twelve weeks, four days. Residence, Biddeford. Eight month's 
service. Vol. 15, p. 28. 

He appears with rank of dniiv.uier on company return of Capt. 
Hill's company, Col. Scammon's regiment (30th), dated Sep- 
tember 27, 1775. Enlisted ATay 5. 1775. Residence, Bidde- 
ford. Coat Rolls. Eight months' service. Vol. 56, p. 199. 

He appears among signatures to an order for bounty coat 
or its e(iuivalent in money, due for the eight months' seryice in 
Capt. Jeremiah Hill's company. Col. James Scammon's regi- 
ment, dated October 6, 1775. Coat Rolls. Vol. 57, File 21. 

He appears with rank of drv.inincr on muster roll of Capt. Jere- 
miah Hill's company. Col. Edmund Phinney's regiment, dated 
in garrison. Fort George, December 8, 1776. Enlisted January 
I, 1776. Re-enlisted November 14, 1776. Vol. 46, p. 3. 

During the winter months of 1776 he enlisted for the 
war and served as drummer and drum-major in Col. Joseph 



54 WATERVILLE IN THE) WAR. 

Vose's (First) "Regiment, Massachusetts Line, and was dis- 
charged in June, 1783. He was five feet, six inches high, 
light complexion, light hair. He claimed to have been in the 
Battle of Monmouth and at the surrender of Burgoyne, and to 
have marched to Yorktown and been present at the surrender of 
Cornwallis. He was at one time reported as a deserter, but the 
charge was cancelled and this record removed. 

He came to New Sharon in 1794 and to Waterville about 1830. 
He had nine children, but never owned any property in New 
Sharon or AVaterville. He was probably a skilled mechanic. 

Mr. Davis was born in Simbross, Cork county, Ireland, about 
1754. The date of his death and place of burial are unknown, 
but he was living here in 1835. ^"^' ^^ his great age would hardly 
return to New Sharon. He died before 1840, if he died here, 
as, although he was a pensioner, he was not on the list of fifteen 
living here and in Winslow in 1840. 

Oliver Dozv. and his cousin Amos, enlisted in Captain Watts' 
company in Salem, N. H., in 1756. Oliver continued in same 
company in Colonel N. Meserve's regiment ; fought at Crown 
Point, Ticonderoga. and in other campaigns. 

In 1777 he was in Captain Joseph Bailey's company, Moses 
Kelly's regiment. General Whipple's brigade. 

In 1 78 1 he served in Captain Nathaniel Head's company of 
Lieut. -Col. David Reynolds' regiment of New Hampshire troops. 

He was a lieutenant as early as 1776, as appears from military 
archives, his name appearing with other Hopkinton men. 

Oliver Dow was born in Salem, N. H.,in 1736 ; moved to Hop- 
kinton in 1773, back to Salem about 1790, and lived there 'till 
1820, when he moved to Waterville with his son Levi, died here 
December 18, 1824, and was buried in Monument Park. 

He was grandfather of Charles Dow who lived and died here, 
and great- grandfather of Levi A. Dow, late of Co. B, 21st Maine 
Infantry Volunteers. 

He was a great-grandfather of Hon. Richard S. Dow, coun- 
sellor-at-law. State street, Boston, Mass., to whom the writer 
is indebted for this biographical sketch. 

Sampson Freeman : Appears in a return of men enlisted into 
the Continental Army from ist Essex county regiment. Resi- 



WATERVILLK IN THE WAR. 55 

dence, Salem. Term, three years. Joined Capt. Fairfield's 
company, Col. Wigg-lesworth's regiment. Vol. 41, p. 44. 

Appears with rank of private on muster roll of Capt. Joseph 
McNall's company, Col. Edward Wigglesworth's regiment. 
Dated Camp at Valley Forge, June 2, 1778. Term three years. 
Vol. 61, p. 24. 

Appears with rank of private on muster and pay roll of Capt. 
Peter Page's company. Col. Wigglesworth's regiment, for 
March and April, 1779, dated at Providence, May 5, 1779. 
Enlisted February i, 1777, three years. Transferred to Capt. 
John K. Smith's company, Col. Smith's regiment. Vol. 22, p. 98. 

Appears with rank of private on Continental Army pay 
accounts of Capt. John K. Smith's company. Col. Smith's regi- 
ment, for service from February i, 1777, to February 5, 1780. 
Residence, Salem. Continental Army books. 

Sampson Freeman was a free man of color who came to 
Waterville from Peru, Me., in 1835, and after a brief acquain- 
tance married Venus, the widow of Prince Henry, who lived on 
the second rangeway and owned a small farm. Venus was 
brought up in the family of Judge Redington of Vassalboro. 
Her husband must have died before 1825, as she was a widow 
in 1826, and lived on the farm she inherited from him and which 
is now a part of the farm of J. C. Blaisdell on the 2nd rangeway. 
Freeman lived with "Aunt Venus" six years, when she died and 
was buried in Monument Park. He died in 1843 and was buried 
near her. 

Enoch Fuller, Revolutionary soldier, died in Winslow, January 
29, 1842, aged eighty-seven, and was buried in the "Old Fort" 
Cemetery. 

Seth GetchcU. Grandfather of Miss Julia Stackpole, enlisted 
from Berv.'ick, Maine, where he was born in 1753. He married 
Sarah Grant, by whom he had nine children, all of whom are 
dead. 

He came here soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, 
owned a small farm about two and a half miles west of Water- 
ville village, and worked in a grist mill, which might have been 
near the dam of the Union Gas & Electric Co., on the Messalon- 



56 WATERVILLE IN THK WAR. 

skee or farther up that stream at the Rice bridge. In 1840 he 
lived with Susan Stackpole. 

He died in Pittsfiekl, Maine, in July, 1845, aged ninety-one 
years, eight months. His wife survived him. but died in Febru- 
ary of the following year, and the remains of both were brought 
here and buried in Pine Grove Cemetery. 

Nathaniel Gilman: Has record of service but no way to 
identify him positively, as there are many of the same name. 
He lived here and died here before 1840, as his widow, Sarah 
Gilman, was a pensioner here at that date. The date of his birth, 
death or place of enlistment are in doubt, but he was buried in 
the family vault in the old cemetery, and when it was made into 
a park (Monument) the vault was demolished and all the bodies 
removed to Pine Grove Cemetery. 

BlisJia Hallett: Private, Capt. Elisha Nye's company. 
Enlisted February 14, 1776: service to November 21, 1776, nine 
months, six days. Company stationed at Elizabeth Islands for 
defense of sea coast, also, Capt. Elisha Hedge's company, Col. 
Freeman's regiment. Enlisted September 3, 1779. Discharged 
September 18, 1770; service five days. Company detached for 
military service at Falmouth on an alarm. Massachusetts 
Soldiers and Sailors in Revolution, Vol. Yll, p. 122. 

Received a pension ; lived in Waterville, in 1840. at the age 
of eighty-two years, with Jonathan Hal let. Date of death 
unknown ; buried in old cemetery in (Oakland. 

Solomon Hallett: Private, Capt. Joshua Gray's company.* 
Enlisted November i, 1775, discharged December 31, 1775, ser- 
vice two months, five days in defense of sea coast. Roll dated 
Barnstable. 

'' Capt. Joshua Gray of Yarmouth ; captain of a company of 
minute-men, engaged July i, 1775. discharged December 31, 

1775- 

Private, Capt. Ebenezer Baker's company, Col. Freeman's 
legiment. Marched, October 4, 1777, service eighteen days. 
Company marched to Tiverton, R. I., on a secret expedition. 

Private, Capt. Micah Hamlen's company, Col. Jonathan 
Reed's (ist) regiment of Guards. Marched, April 2, 1778. 
Service to July 6, 1778, three months, four days, at Cambridge, 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 57 

including four days (eighty miles) travel home. Enlistment 
three months from April 2, 1778. 

Private, Capt. Elisha Hedge's company," Col. Freeman's regi- 
ment. Marched September 3, 1779. Discharged September 18, 
1779. Service fifteen days. Company detatched from militia 
for service at Falmouth on an alarm. 

* Capt. Elisha Hedge, Yarmouth, Capt. 2nd (ist Yarmouth) 
company, ist Barnstable County Regiment of Massachusetts 
Militia. 

Solomon Hallett was living in Waterville (now Oakland) in 
1840, at the age of eighty-six, and was a pensioner. He died 
soon after this date and was buried in the old cemetery at West 
Waterville (now C)akland). 

Timothy Littlcficld: Enlisted from Wells, Maine, September 
4, 1775, in Capt. Noah Moulton Littlefield's company, and served 
three months and fifteen days at Wells and Arundell, guarding 
sea coast. 

Also: In Capt. James Littlefield's company, Col. Stover's 
regiment from August 14, 1777, to November 14, 1777, four 
months and three days, including 300 miles travel home from 
Coeman's (Oueman's (?) Heights with Northern Army. 

Also : Served to reinforce the Continental Army from 
August 2, 1780, to December 26, 1780, five months and nine days, 
including fifteen days' travel home. 

Descriptive list, 6' i" high, light complexion, age twenty-one 
years. 

Was a pensioner and lived here in 1840. Date of death and 
place of interment unknown. 

Saiathiel Penny: Appears with rank of private on muster roll 
of Capt. Samuel Sayer's company. Col. James Scammon's regi- 
ment, dated August i, 1775. Time of service three months, four 
days. Enlisted May 3, 1775. Residence, Wells, eight months' 
service. Vol. 16, p. 2y. 

Appears with rank of private on company return of Capt, 
Samuel Sayer's company, Col. James Scammon's regiment, 
October, 1775. Enlisted May 3, 1775. Residence, Wells, Ale. 
Coat Rolls, eight months' service. \''ol. 56, p. 205. 



58 WATERVILLE IN TUt WAR. 

Appears among signatures to an order for bounty coat or its 
equivalent in monev flue for the eight months' service in 1775, 
in Capt. Samuel Saver's company, Col. James Scammon's (30th) 
regiment, dated Cambridge, October 2y, 1775. Coat Rolls, Vol. 
57, File 21. 

Appears with rank of private on muster roll of Capt. Silas 
Wild's company, Col. Edmund Phinney's regiment, dated in Gar- 
rison at Fort George, December, 1776. Enlisted January 10, 
1776. Time of service, ten months, four days. Reported sick 
in barracks. Re-engaged. November 14, 1776, under Col. 
Brewer. Vol. 46, p. 6. 

Salathiel Penny : Appears with rank of private on muster 
and pay roll of Capt. Daniel Merrill's company. Col. Samuel 
Brewer's regiment. Marched to Bennington. Enlisted January 
I, 1777. Was present at the surrender of Burgoyne. Dis- 
charged March 17, 1777. Residence, Wells. Vol. 21, p. 100. 

Was born in Wells. Maine, in 1756. First wife unknown; 
second wife was Margaret C. Grant of Berwick. 

Mr. Penney settled upon and cleared the farm where he lived 
and died, and which is now owned by Mrs. Moses Penney. 

By his first wife he had two daughters and one son. Peletiah, 
father of William G. Penney, father of our "Penney Boys," Ira, 
Peletiah, Charles, William and Fred and one daughter, Harriet, 
who married Nelson McCrillis. 

Salathiel Penney died September 22, 1847, aged ninety-one 
years, and was buried in Monument Park. About 1875 his 
remains were removed to Pine Grove Cemetery. 

John Piillen: Was born at Attleboro, Mass., May 7, 1763. He 
was the youngest of the nine children of James Pullen and Lydia 
Woodcock, his wife, who had been married at Attleboro, Febru- 
ary 26, 1742. Lydia Woodcock was the daughter of Jonathan 
Woodcock, who is said to have been a very brave man and of 
much influence in the colony at that time. 

John's grandfather and the father of James was Nicholas Pul- 
len. He is the earliest ancestor that the family have thus far 
been able to find, and nothing is known of him except the fact 
of his marriage at Rehoboth, Mass., on January 19, 1709, to Mary 
Tucker. 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 59 

John Pullen was a Revolutionary soldier, his name appearing 
in a descriptive list of men raised to reinforce the Continental 
army for the term of six month? agreeably to a resolve of June 
5, 1780. He is there described as seventeen years of age, five 
feet, four inches in height and of dark complexion. His resi- 
dence is given as Attleboro. He arrived at Springfield, July 9, 
1780, and with the nth Division, to which this re-enforcement 
was assigned, marched to camp, July 11, 1780, under command 
of Ensign Barrows. (Mass. Muster and Pay Rolls. Vol. 35, 
page 192.) 

The name of John Pullen of Attleboro also appears in a return 
dated Camp Totoway, October 25, 1780, containing a list of men 
raised for six months' service and returned by Brig.-Gen. Pat- 
terson as having passed muster. (Mass. Muster and Pay Rolls, 
Vol. 25, page 241.) 

He was in the Continental army from July 6, 1780 to January 
8, 1781, having seen six months' and two days' service. 

John Pullen was married at Winthrop, Me., June 23, 1785, 
to Amy Bishop, daughter and youngest child of Squire Bishop 
and Patience Titus. Eight children were born of this union, 
one of whom, Sarah Boardman, married John Caffrey, who was 
the grandfather of Mrs. L. D. Carver of Augusta. 

John Pullen died March 29. 1810, at the age of forty-seven, 
at Waterville, Me., and was buried in the old cemetery on Elm 
street, now Monument Park. 

His widow. Amy Bishop Pullen, resided for a number of years 
in Waterville with her daughter, Mrs. Sarah Boardman Caffrey, 
and was living as late as the year 1836, when she made applica- 
tion for State bounty, as appears by the records in the land office 
of Maine, 

Asa Redington: Was born in the town of Boxford, Essex 
Co., Mass., December 22, 1761. Son of Abraham and Sarah 
(Kimball) Redington. In June, 177S he enlisted in Wilton, N. 
H., in Col. Peabody's regiment, and joined the forces of Gen. 
Sullivan at Providence, R. I., where the troops were quartered 
in Brown College. 

In December he was discharged and returned to Wilton, N. H. 
In June, 1779. re-enlisted in the "Continental Establishment" for 



6o WATERVILLR IN THE WAR, 

one year, joined the army at Fishkill on the Hudson and spent 
the following winter at Danbury, Ct. 

In spring of 1 780 joined the regiment of Col. Miller and spent 
the balance of his term of enlistment scouting as far north as 
West Point and was discharged at expiration of term of service. 
In March, 1781, he again enlisted and joined the army near West 
Point in Col. Alex Scammel's regiment, which dropped down 
the Hudson to Kingsbridge, thence to New Jersey, Philadelphia 
and Annapolis and finally reached Yorktown in time to partici- 
pate in the seige and surrender. Thence he followed the for- 
tunes of the army in its long march to Saratoga, thence to 
Princeton, New Jersey, and West Point, where he was discharged 
December 23, 1783 without pay and left to travel 300 miles to 
his home, carrying the musket he had borne through his long 
service. The old musket was treasured many years in his family 
and finally presented to the State of Maine by his oldest son, 
Judge Redington. 

Mr. Redington came to Vassalboro in 1784, married Mary, 
daughter of Nehemiah Getchell, September 2, 1787. Came to 
Waterville (then Winslow) in 1792 where he died, March 31, 
1845. He was buried in Monument Park, where his remains 
still He. 

Asa Redington was grandfather of Mrs. Appleton A. Plaisted 
of Waterville. 

Simeon Simpson: Simeon Simpson enlisted in Winslow in 
July, 1782, for three years, in Capt. King's company, Lieut. -Col. 
Brooks' regiment (the 7th Mass. Line) ; transferred to the 4th 
Massachusetts Line and was discharged in the State of New 
York, December 31, 1783. Mr. Simpson was pensioned in 1818. 

In a paper dated October 11, 1836, he alleged that he was 
seventy years old. This would make his birth in 1766, and his 
age ninety-four at his death, September 24, i860, though he 
claimed to be ninety-six. 

He was buried in Winslow on the home farm, now owned 
by the Lockwood Company. Before this article goes to press, 
his remains will have been removed, with those of his family, to 
Pine Grove Cemetery. 



VVATER\'ILLE IN THE WAR. 6l 

Jonathan Soide: Appears with rank of private on muster 
and pay roll of Captain Calvin Partrid^^e's company, Colonel 
John Cushing's regiment, for service at Rhode Island. Enlisted, 
September 2^, ^77^- Time of service, one month, twenty-eight 
days. Vol. 3, p. 62. 

Jonathan Soule : Appears with rank of pm'ate on muster and 
pay roll of Captain James Harlow's company. Col. Ezra Wood's 
regiment, raised for eight months to guard the passage of North 
river. Enlisted, June 5, 1778. Time of service, eight months, 
four da}s. Vol. 20, p. 8. 

He died January 6, 1832, aged eighty-four, and was buried 
in the old Elm street cemetery, and in 1875 removed to Pine 
Grove Cemetery. 

Lot Stiirtcz'ant: Was born in Wareham, Mass., July 25, 1759. 
He was the second son of Joseoh and Mary (Gibbs) Sturte- 
vant. Joseph was the son of Moses, son of Samuel, son of 
Samuel, who was at Plymouth, Mass., as early as May, 1642. 
His affidavit, on file in the land office at the State House, 
Augusta, gives the following : 

"Lot Sturtevant ot Waterville, Jvme 15, 1835, seventy-five 
years old and upwards, enlisted at Wareham, Mass., 1777, for 
three years in Capt. Josh Eddy's company, Gen. Bradford's regi- 
m.ent, Massachusetts Line. Served his full time and was honor- 
ably discharged at West Point in 1780. United States pensioner. 
Land certificate granted April 19, 1835." 

It cannot be ascertained when he came to W^aterville, but it 
must have been before 1790, for his eldest son, Zenas, was born 
here in November, 1790, and the succeeding children, seven in 
all, were born here prior to 1806. He married Elizabeth Bessie, 
who was born October 3, 17G4 or 5, and died January 13, 1833, 
aged sixty-eight. Lot Sturtevant died at Waterville, June 4, 
1848, aged eighty-eight, at the home of Reward Sturtevant. 

His farm was one of the "Ten Lots" of which he was the 
original settler and proprietor. Here he lived, reared his family, 
and was buried in the cemetery one mile north of Fairfield Center 
on the Pishons Ferry Road. 

Richard Szi'cetcer: Of North Yarmouth is credited with ser- 
vice as a private in Capt. Noyes' company, Col. Phinney's regi- 



62 WATERVILLE IN THF, WAR. 

ment of eight months' men with the army at the siege of Boston 
in 1775. 

Mr. Sweetzer Hved here in 1840 with David Parker; was a 
pensioner and ninety years of age. When he came here, when 
he died and where he was bnried are unknown. 

Philip TJiaycr: vSupposed to have been born near Attleboro, 
Mass. and enHsted from there. Came to Berwick after the war 
and finally drifted "down east" to Waterville (now Oakland) 
died and was buried in the old cemetery there. No other record. 

ObadiaJi JVUiiams: Was a surgeon in Gen. Starks' regiment 
at Bunker Hill, and served durhig the entire Revolutionary War. 
He came from Epping, N. H., to Waterville (then Winslow) in 
1792, and built the first frame house in Waterville, the small 
one-story house still standing opposite the electric light station 
at the end of the bridge. The view from this little home of his 
down the bay and the broad Kennebec must have been very 
delightful, (since obstructed by the old Dalton house and the 
factories). Dr. Williams died in 1799, aged forty-nine. He 
was buried in the old cemetery, now Monument Park, which was 
then only an open field without fences, and was deeded to the 
town of Winslow for a burying ground, with 'certain reservations. 
\^nien the lines were run to define the boundary on the south 
side, it was found that Dr. Williams and his wife had been buried 
outside the cemetery. Their remains were taken up and removed 
so as to come within the bounds, and when the change was 
effected, making a public park of the old cemetery, their remains 
were again moved to Pine Grove Cemetery. 

George Young: Was a Revolutionary soldier who came to 
Waterville (now Oakland) to live, died and was buried there in 
the old cemetery. Birthplace, date of birth, military record, age 
and date of death unknown. 

Reference is had in Massachusetts military service record to 
his being commissioned captain of the 5th company, Col. 
Wheaton's (4th Lincoln county) regiment of Massachusetts 
militia, m July, 1776, but no service is found credited to him as 
such. 



Note— The writer would acknowleclge his Indebtedness to C. J. House, Esq., of 
the Industrial Bureau, Augusta, Me., and E. L. Getchell, Esq., of Harvard Univer- 
sity, for valuable i esearch and results in Revolutionary records. 



WATERVILLU IN THE WAR. 63 



THE WAR OF 1012. 

The War of 1812, as is well known grew out of the claim of 
Great Britain to the right of search of our merchant vessels, and 
the impressment of American seamen under various pretexts, 
which culminated in a "State of War," as declared by our 
National Congress, June 18, 1812, and proclaimed by President 
Madison, the following day. 

The following are the Rosters of the several companies of 
militia enlisted from Waterville and vicinity for the war, with 
their service as noted. The residence of the company officers is 
given while that of the men is not and the records at Augusta 
and Washington do not give them, but as the Waterville com- 
panies were recruited here, the means of transportation at that 
time primitive and limited, the inference is that they were prob- 
ably residents of Waterville. 

Service from the 14th to 25th September, 181 4. 



ROLL OF THE FIELD AND .STAFF OF LlEUT.-COL. ELNATHAN 
SHERWIN'S REGIMENT OF MILITIA. 

Being the ist Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 8th Division, in service 
at Augusta from the 14th to the 25th of September, 1814. This 
regiment started for the seaboard but was ordered into camp at 
Augusta to await orders. On the 24th day of September there 
was a draft from the regiment to fill up the regiment of Lieut. - 
Col. Ellis Sweet in service at Bath. Those of the regiment not 
drafted were discharged on the 25th day of September, 1814. 

Elnathan Sherwin. Lieut. -Col., Waterville ; John Cleaveland, 
Major, Fairfield ; Richard M. Dorr, Major ; Ephraim Getchell. 
Adjutant; Joseph H. Hallett, Or.-Mast., Waterville; Ambrose 
Howard, Or.-Mast. -Sgt. ; Moses Appleton, Surgeon, Winslow ; 
David Wheeler, Paymaster, Waterville ; Zedekiah Belknap, 
Chaplain, Waterville; Moses Healey, Drum-major; Benjamin 
Foster, Fife-major; Thomas Leeman, Fife-major. 



64 waterville; in the war. 



FlKI.D AND STAFF ROLL 

Of Lieut. -Col. Elnathan Sherwin's drafted regiment of militia 
in service at Wiscasset and Edgecomb from the 24th of Septem- 
ber to the loth of November, 18 14. 

Elnathan Sherwin, Lieut. -Col., Waterville ; Richard M. Dorr, 
Major; Nathan Stanley, Major, China; Moses Appleton, Sur- 
geon, Winslow ; Joseph Bachellor, Surgeon's Mate ; Ephraim 
Getchell, Adjutant; David Wheeler, Paymaster, Waterville; 
Joseph H. Hallett, Or.-Master; Charles Haydon, Jr., Sergt.- 
Major; Benjamin Foster, Qr.-Mast.-Sgt. ; David Low, Drum- 
Major; Thomas Leeman, Fife-Major. 

ROLL OF CAPTAIN DEAN BANGS' COMPANY OF ARTILLERY. 

In Major Joseph Chandler's Battalion raised in IVatcrvUle and 
Vassalborc and in service at Augusta waiting orders, from the 
1 2th to the 24th of September, 1814. 

Commissioned officers : Dean Bangs, Capt., Waterville ; 
Lemuel Pullen, Lieut., Waterville ; Abraham Smith, Lieut., 
W^aterville. 

vSergeants : Jabez Dow, Artemus Smith, Levi Moore, Jr., 
William McFarland. 

Corporals : William Marston, Alexander McKechnie, Abiel 
Moore, James Bragg. 

Musicians : Henry Richardson, Reward Sturtevant. 

Privates : William Bates, Dennis Blackwell, Ellis Blackwell, 
William Blish, Andrew Bradford, Martin Bradford, Charles 
Freeman, Joseph Gulliver, Samuel Hastings, Godfrey Jackson, 
Joseph Marston, Josiah Merrill, Newall Page, Benjamin Rives, 
James Shorey, Jeremiah Smith, Joseph Smiley, Jeremiah Tozier, 
3, Alvin Trask, Jonathan C. Tozier. 

Capt. Dean Bangs was a privateer and a soldier of the Ameri- 
can Revolution. 

ROLL OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM PULLEn's COMPANY OF MILITIA. 

In Lieut. -Col. Elnathan Sherwin's regiment, raised in Water- 
ville and in service at Augusta from the 14th to the 25th of Sep- 
tember, 1 8 14. 



WATERVILLE IN THF) WAR. 65 

William Pullen, Capt., Waterville ; Joseph Warren, Lieut., 
Waterville ; Leonard Cornforth, Ensign, Waterville. 

Sergeants : Ichabod Smith, Reuben Ricker, Isaiah Hallett^ 
John Hallett. 

Corporals : Samuel Merry, James Gilbert, Wiman Shorey, 
Thomas Stevens. 

Musicians: Dexter Pullen. Isaac Gage, Asa Bates. 

Privates : Philip Badger, James Burgess, Thomas Bessey, 
Seth Crovvell, Isaiah Crowell, David Coombs, Miller Crowell, 
John Cobb, Hiram Crowell, Seward Corson, Daniel Duren, Pliny 
Farrington, Seth Gage, Bryant Gleason, Reuben Gage, Jr., 
Dennis Gibbs, Timothy B. Ilayward, Elijah Hayden, EHsha Hal- 
lett, Jr., Josiah M. Hallett, Ebenezer Hussey, John Hussey, Job 
Harlow, Asa Lewis, Moody Lander, Ivory Low, Abraham 
Lander, Jr., William Lewis, Jr., William Merryfield, Samuel 
Merryfield, George Ricker, George Ricker, 2d or Jr., James Rice, 
Benjamin Stevens, Philander Soule, Isaac Terrill, Leonard Tap- 
per, James White, Cyrus Wheeler, Lorin ^^''ade. 

ROLL OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH HITCHINGS' COMPANY 01- MILlTlA. 

In Lieut. -Col. Elnathan vSherwin's regiment raised in Water- 
ville and in service at Augusta from the T4th to the 25th of Sep- 
tember, 1814. 

Joseph Hitchings, Capt., Waterville; Samuel W^ebb, Lieut., 
Waterville ; Thomas McFarland, Ensign, Waterville. 

Sergeants : Josiah Jacob, Jr., Abraham Morrill, Solomon 
Berry, Calvin L. Getchell. 

Corporals : Abraham Butts, Pelatiah Soule, Simeon Tozer, 2, 
William Watson. 

Musicians : David Low, Lewis Tozier. 

Privates : John Bennet, Jonas Blanchard, Columbus Bacon, 
John Clifford, Richard Clifford, Jacob Cool. Zacheus Foster, 
Abel Getchell, Joseph Hogden, William Hume, Thomas Parker, 
Jr., David Parker, William Phillips, David Priest, Arby Penney, 
Moses Ricker, William Fv.edington, Samuel Redington, Silas 
Redington, John Stackpole, Benjamin Smith, William Smith, 
George Soule. Daniel Soule, Sullivan Soule, Richard Sweetzer, 
William Sweetzer, William Tozer, Stephen Tozer. 
5 



66 WATERVILL^ IN THE WAR. 



ROLL OF CAPT. CHILllS COMPANY FROM \\INSLOW. 

James L. Child, Capt. ; Washington Heald, Lient. ; Wm. 
Getchell, Ensign. 

Sergeants : Wm. Harvey, James Heald, Joel Crosby, Abra- 
ham Bean. 

Corporals : Alvin Blackwell, Richard V. Hayden, Simeon 
Heald, Elisha Ellis. 

Privates : Charles Hayden, Jr., Hernend C. Barton, Samuel 
Bates, Clark Drummond, James Fife, Wm. Fletcher, Asa 
Getchell, Zipheroe Howard, Joseph Heald, Daniel Libby, Wm. 
Pollard, Geo. Pillsbury, Thos. J. Pressey, Daniel Richards, 
Rufus Rhodes, Ebenezer Richardson, Sam'l Richardson, Adna 
Reynolds. Wm. Spring, Joseph Swift, Phinehas Small, Jeremiah 
B. Thompson, Butler Wood, Ephriam Wilson, Jr., Samuel Wil- 
son, Luke Wilson, Wm. Wyman, Benj. Windship, Geo. Abbot, 
Wentworth Ross, Stephen Getchell, Levi Pollard, Wm. Ham, 
Frederic R. Paine, John Gould, Nathaniel Dingley, Stephen 
Abbot. 

Amos P. Southard was born and enlisted in Litchfield or Edge- 
comb. Soon after the war he moved to Winslow, where he lived 
nearly fifty years, and died in 1870. 

An act "Declaring war between Great Britain and her depend- 
encies, and the United States and their Territories" was passed 
by Congress and signed by the President, June 18, 181 2. Treaty 
of peace was concluded, December 24, 1814, ratification 
exchanged, February 17, 1815, and proclaimed, February 18, 
1815. 

From reports of the third auditor of th , Treasury Department 
dated December 12, 1836, (published in Ex. Doc. No. 20, House 
of Representatives, 24th Congress, 2nd Session,) and February 
22, 185S, (published in Ex. Doc. No. 72, House of Representa- 
tives, 35th Congress, ist Session), it appears that the total num- 
ber of regulars, militia, volunteers and rangers who served the 
United States at any time during the war of 181 2 was 528,274. 
It is evident that this number represents only the number of 
enlistments and not the actual number of individuals in service. 
It is known that many of the men who served during the War of 

LofC. 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 6/ 

i8t2 rendered more than one term, or "tour." of service. But 
the number of men who served more than one term cannot be 
ascertained, and it is impossible, therefore, to determine the 
actual number of individuals in service during that war. 

W'aterville's most eminent soldier in the War of 1812 was 
Gen. Eleazer Wheelock Ripley. 

Born in H'anover, N. H., April 15, 1782. he was a nephew 
of President John Wheelock and son of Prof. Sylvanus Ripley, 
D. D., of Dartmouth, and was graduated at Dartmouth in 1800. 
He studied law in the office of Hon. Timothy Boutelle. and of 
his tax assessed in 1809, $2 was tax on his income as a lawyer. 
He was town agent in 1809 and 1810, was one of the first board 
of fire wardens elected in 1809, and was chosen by the town as 
one of the petitioners to the general court to annex Waterville to 
Somerset county. 

May 7, 1810. he was elected by the town its representative to 
the general court of ^Massachusetts and was re-elected. May 13, 

181 1. He was Speaker of the House and was elected Senator in 

1812. He became lieutenant-colonel of the 21st Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Infantry, A larch 12, 181 2. and just one year later, 
colonel. He was made brigadier-general, April 15, 1814, and 
major-general, Julv 25. 1S14. He was wounded in the attack 
on Toronto but soon after commanded the 2nd Brigade under 
Gen. Brown on the Niagara frontier. At the battle of Lundy's 
Lane, after the wounding of Gen. Brown, the command of the 
army devolved on Gen. Ripley. He was severely wounded in the 
battle of Niagara but was conspicuous for gallantry in defense 
of Fort Erie, August 15, 1H14. November 3, 1814, by resolution 
of Congress, he was presented with a gold medal inscribed ^\ ith 
the names, "Niagara, Chippewa, Erie." He remained in the 
U. S. Army until 1820, stationed in Louisiana. He then 
resigned, practiced law in Louisiana, served in the State Senate, 
and was a member of Congress from 1835 ^o 1839. He died in 
Louisiana, March 2, 1839. 



68 WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 



THE AROOSTOOK WAR. 



From the close of the War of 1812, the Northwestern bound- 
ary of Maine was in dispute till 1839, when the Le,^islature (of 
Maine) in private session took measures to drive trespassers 
from their camps in the valley of the Aroostook river. 

The first detachment in charge of a sheriff was captured and 
taken to jail at Fredericton, N. B., whereupon the Governor of 
New Brunswick sent word to Governor Fairfield that he had 
orders to hold the disputed territory by military force and 
demanded the recall of all militia from the Aroostook. 

The people were aroused ; the Legislature indignant ! Money 
was voted for the protection of the public lands, and a draft of 
10,000 men from the militia was ordered and the men sent at 
once, through the winter snows to the frontier, where they spent 
three months near Presque Isle, on the Aroostook. 

A company was drafted here and at Fairfield with Samuel 
Burrill as captain, and on February 25, 1839 joined the 2nd Regi- 
ment at Augusta, and marched through deep snow to the frontier. 

A peaceful settlement was enforced by this timely occupation 
and the troops marched home. 

A roster of the Waterville-Fairfield company with the names 
of the Waterville men marked with a star, follows. But one 
man of this company from Waterville survives, Adrastus Branch. 

ROLL OF CAI'T. SAMflEL BURRn.I.'s CO. I OF INFANTRY, 

In the detachment of drafted mil>ia of Maine, 2nd Regiment, 
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, called into actual service by the State 
of Maine for the protection of its Northwestern frontier, from 
the 25th of February to the 19th of April, 1839. 

Commissioned officers : Captain, Samuel Burrill, Fairfield ; 
Lieutenant, John J. Emery, Fairfield ; Ensign, Charles Corn- 
forth, Waterville.* 

Sergeants : James Hasty, Jr.,* Elias C. Hallett,* William 
Gardner,* William L. Maxwell.* 

Corporals : John Bradbury, Ephriam W. Leach, Daniel W. 
Tmkham,* Thurston H. Tozier.* 

Musicians : Josiah Pearl, Silas Richardson.* 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 69 

Privates : David P. Banks,* Goodwin Bradbury, Walter 
Burleigh.* Adrastus Branch,* Gersham Boston,* Charles 
Church, Isaac B. Clifford,* Benjamin F. Corson,* Eben S. Cor- 
son,* Charles E. Dilling-ham.* William Davis,* Briggs H. 
Emery, 2nd, John Evans,* Joseph Fogg, William Green,* 
Heman Gibbs, Jr.,* Abi.sha Higgins,* James Pleywood, Moses 
Healey, Jr.,* James Holmes,* Chancellor Johnson,* Williams 
Lander,* Theodore McGrath,* George W. Priest,* Granville D. 
Pullen,* Joseph G. Peavey,* William Peavy,* Joseph Peavy,* 
John Rines, George Rose,* Joseph Ricker, Jr.,* Ivory Ricker,* 
William Southwick, Henry A. Shorey,* Hartson Smith,* Peter 
Sibley, Jr.,* Curtis Tobey, William P. Tozier,* William Wood- 
man,* Charles S. Wyman, James E. Wyman, Sewell Whitcomb,* 
Thomas \\'hitcomb,* James Wyman. 

Officers' servants : Joshua Ellis, Jr., Capt's. ; Thomas J. 
Emery,* Lieut's. ; Oliver Cornforth,* Ensign's. 



MEXIC\N WAR. 



No record has been found on the rolls of the war department 
of the enlistment of any volunteer soldiers from Waterville for 
service during the Mexican War, either for volunteer regiments 
or for the regular army. 

The principal recruiting in Maine was at Portland, Bangor, 
Eastport and Lewiston. 

Hiram Cothsan enlisted at Bangor, September 28, 1847, .giv- 
ing his birthplace as Waterville, Maine. He was assigned to 
Company M, 2nd Artillery, 17. S. A., and was discharged there- 
from July 19, 1848, by expiration of service, as a musician. 

Hostilities began April 24, 1846, with a skirmish which 
resulted in the capture of Captain Thornton and his party of 
dragoons by the Mexicans. The act of Congress approved May 
13, 1846, declares that "A state of war exists between that gov- 
ernment (Mexico) and the United States." Treaty of peace 
was concluded February 2, 1848, ratifications exchanged May 
30, 1848, and proclaimed July 4, 1848. 



70 



WATERVILLli IN THK WAR. 



From a report of the adjutant general, dated December 3, 
1849, (published in Ex. Doc. No. 24, House of Representatives, 
31st Congress, ist session), together with certain additions com- 
piled from the official records on file in this office, it appears that 
the number of regulars and volunteers received into service dur- 
ing the war with Mexico was 101,110. 



WAR WITH SPAIN. 

From a "Statistical Exhibit of Strength of V^olunteer Forces 
called into Service during the War with Spain," published by the 
adjutant general's office, December 13, 1899, it appears that the 
total number of volunteers in service' during the war was 223,235. 
This number includes 453 officers who were also officers in the 
regular army. 

Our representation in this war is as follows : 



First Battalion 

Avery, Harley E., 
Barnaby, Alec. 
Barnes, Ernest A., 
Barry, Richard J., Jr., 
Bennett, Nelson, 
Butler, Joe, 
Buzzell, Henry E., 
Cabana, Charles L., 
Chanpagne, Mathias, 
Cone, Augustus, 
Conway, James J., 
Dutton, James W., 
Ferguson, William, 
Foster, Ralph H., 
PVancouer, Joseph, 
Furlong, Richard E., 
Greenwood, Arthur 
Hall, Fred G., 
Keniston, Charles W., 
Latlip, Frank C, 
Lessor, Edward, 



Heavy A) 


<'tillery. 


c. 


Private. 


C, 


Private, 


c, 


Private. 


c. 


Private. 


A, 


Private. 


A, 


Private. 


c, 


Corporal. 


A, 


Private. 


c. 


Private. 


c, 


Private. 


A, 


Private. 


c, 


2d Lieutenant, 


c, 


Sergeant. 


D, 


Musician. 


c, 


Private, 


c, 


Private. 


A, 


Private. 


D, 


Private. 


c, 


Private. 


A, 


Private. 


A, 


Private. 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 



71 



Libbey, Llewellyn M., A, Private. 

McLellan, William J., C. Sergeant. 

Merrill, Edmund W., C, Corporal. 

Moore. Thomas F., A, Private. 

Perry, Frank F., A, Private. 

Pooler, David B., C, Private. 

Pooler, Fred E., A, Private. 

Pooler, Harry. C, Private. 

Soucier, Oniseme, C, Private. 

Sterling, William T., C, Corporal. 

Thing, Daniel H., C, Private. 

Vigue, Joseph, A, Private. 

Volier, Joseph D., C, Private. 

Willette, Edward, C, Private. 



First 
Berg, Lars, 
Burgess, Fred E., 
Dor, George F., 
Ellis, Walter L., 
Gilman. Forest J., 
Hewes, Irving R., 
King, Joseph F., 
Lidstrom. Axel, 
Pomelow, Trefflin, 
Pooler, William J., 
Surman, William J.. 
Winslow, Henrv L.. 



Maine Infantry. 

L, 
M, 
L, 
B. 

M, 

L, 

H, 

M, 

Band, 

M, 

D. 

E, 



Private. 

Private. 

Private. 

Private. 

Corporal. 

Private. 

Private. 

Private. 

Private. 

Private. 

Private. 

Private. 



PHILIPPINE WAR. 

From a "Table Showing the Organization, Service and 
Strength of the United States Volunteers Authorized by the 
Act of March 2, 1899," published by the adjutant general's office 
October i, 1901, it appears that the total number of volunteers 
in service during the Philippine Insurrection was 39,178. This 
number includes 252 officers who were also officers in the regular 
army. i 



72 VVATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 

List of Soldiers of Philip {^ine War from WaterinUe. 

Burgess, private, Co. C, 43rd U. S. Inf. ; Butler, Melville, pri- 
vate, Co. B, 43rd U. S. Inf. ; Barker, Edwin, private, Co. B, 43rd 
U. S. Inf. ; Besse, Edward H., Q. M. sergeant, 5th U. S. 
Inf. ; Chamberlain, William, private, Co. B, 43rd U. S. Inf. ; 
Doe, George Fred, sergeant, Co. I, 43rd U. S. Inf. ; Button, J. 
W., 1st lieutenant, Co. B, 43rd U. S. Inf. ; Furlong, Richard E., 
Jr., private, Co. I, 46th U. S. Inf. ; Hawes, Percy W., private, Co. 
B, 43rd U. S. Inf. ; Larkin, Phillip, private, Co. B, 43rd U. S. 
Inf. ; Latlip, Fred, private, Co. B, 43rd U. S. Inf. ; McLellan, 
William J., sergeant, Co. B, 43rd U. S. Inf.; McFarland, 
Howard, sergeant, Co. B, 43rd U. S. Inf. ; Micue, John, private, 
Co. B, 43rd U. S. Inf. ; Micue, Joseph, private, Co. B, 43rd U. S. 
Inf. ; Micue, Gus, private, Co. B, 43rd U. S. Inf. ; Morgan, G. A., 
U. S. Art. ; Pomeleau, Trefflie, private, Co. B, 43rd U. S. Inf., 
(killed in action) ; Preble, Plallis, musician (band) 43rd U. S. 
Inf. : Pooler, Barney, private, Co. B, 43rd U. S. Infantry ; Quint, 
Willis, private, Co. B, 43rd U. S. Inf. ; Tallouse, Willie, private, 
Co. H, 43rd Q. S. Inf. ; Towle, Winfred, private, Co. B, 43rd 
U. S. Inf.; Wilson, George A., Jr., musician (band) 43rd U. S. 
Inf. 



REGULAR ARMY AND NAVY. 

Among the sons of Waterville who have served in the regular 
army and navy are : 

Lieut. BouteVe Noycs, U. S. A'., the son of Edwin and Helen 
(Boutelle) Noyes, was born in Waterville, January 3, 1848. He 
entered the United States Naval Academy, September 26, 1864, 
and was graduated with honor in 1S68. His first service afloat 
was on the Guerrier, flag-ship of the South Atlantic Squadron, 
1868-69. He was promoted to be Ensign in 1869. He was in 
the European fleet from 1869-1872, was promoted to be Master 
in 1870 and commissioned Lieutenant in 1873, which rank he held 
at his death. From 1873- 1877 he was with the South Pacific 
fleet; was on the training ship Minnesota from 1877 to 1880. 
In 1 88 1 he was ordered to the Asiatic squadron on board the 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 73 

Richmond where he met his death by accident. Aug-ust 29, 1883. 
His last command was for his men to save themselves while he, 
looking out for their safety, died at his post of duty. He had 
previously received honorable mention for saving the lives of 
seamen at peril to his own. It was in the days of the Civil War 
when naval service was of vitmost value that Boutelle Noyes gave 
himself to his country. In the days of peace, promotion was 
slow, but his high ideals, great ability, and faithful performance 
of duty seemed to assure the highest rank in his profession. 

Lieut. Noyes was married, June 25, 1879, to Miss Charlotte 
Bleecker Luce. Two sons were born to them. Robert Boutelle 
Noyes and Stephen Henley Noyes. The family home is at New- 
port, R. I. 

John Herbert Philbrick, was born in Waterville, Maine, June 
15th, 1853; ritted for college at the Waterville Classical Insti- 
tute (now Coburn Classical Institute) ; entered Colby Univer- 
sity, (now Colby College), in 1869; graduated in 1873, A. B. : 
entered West Point Militarv Academy, July i. 1873, ^"^1 served 
there as a cadet until June 15, 1877, when he was graduated and 
appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the nth U. S. Infantry; he was at 
first stationed at Fort Bennett, and afterwards at Fort Sully, on 
the western frontier ; in 1879 he was ordered to West Point as 
acting assistant professor of modern languages at the Military 
Academy ; and at the expiration of this assignment he rejoined his 
regiment at Fort Sully. He was promoted ist Lieutenant, April 
24, 1886, and served as regimental adjutant from December i, 
1889, until the date of his death, July 24, 1890. 

Francis Bckvard Nye, son of Hon. Joshua Nye, was born in 
Waterville, Maine, August 27, 1847; entered West Point Mili- 
tary Academy in 1865, and was graduated in 1869, being 
assigned to the 2nd IJ. S. Cavalry, in which he served four years. 
At the expiration of this service he resigned and was in business 
in Augusta, Maine, for twelve years, was then appointed Captain 
in the Commissary Department, by President Arthur in 1885 ; 
was stationed at Fort Monroe for four years ; at Washington, 
D. C, for five years ; June i, 1896, he \^■as commissioned Major, 
and was stationed at Omaha, Nebraska, for four years, at Chat- 
tanooga. Tenn., and Huntsville, Ala., for one vear ; he was in 
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74 WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 

San Jnan, P. R., for two years, and since that time has been at 
Vancouver Barracks, Wash in 8; ton. By regular promotion he 
has attained the rank of Colonel. 

Major-Gencral Charles Hcyivood, Commander of the Marine 
Corps of the U. S. Army, was a Waterville boy, the son of Lieut. 
Charles Hey wood of the United States Navy, who died at sea. 
Before he was twenty years old he received a commission in the 
Marine Corps, April 5, 1858. Before the Civil War he had seen 
service off the coast of Africa, and off Nicaragua. He was on 
the Cumberland at Vera Cruz, Mexico, at the outbreak of the 
war. He commanded the after-gun deck division in the fight 
between the Merrimac and the Cumberland, and when the latter 
went down with the flag flying, Capt. Heywood fired the last gun 
and jumped overboard. "For gallant and meritorious service on 
this occasion he was brevetted Major and received honorable 
mentioned from his commander." Afterward he was in command 
of the guard on the Hartford, Farragut's flagship and, January, 
1864, was made fleet marine officer. He was on the Hartford in 
the battle of Mobile Bay, commanding a division of nine-inch 
guns. For his part in this action he was commended and 
brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel. He shared several other engage- 
ments and at the close of the war was recommended for advance- 
ment five numbers by a special board. During the railroad riot 
of 1877 he commanded a battalion of marines and was highly 
commended for the efficiency of his soldiers as well as for his 
care of them. He received the thanks of the Navy Department. 
He rendered important service on the Isthmus of Panama in 
1885, commanding a force of 1,100 men and keeping the Panama 
Railroad open in the midst of revolution. He was made Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel in 1888 and three years later became Commandant 
at Washington Barracks. The good work of the marines during 
the Spanish War and the present superb condition of the force 
is largely the result of the work of Gen. Heywood, who has 
inspired the force with his own spirit, perfected its discipline and 
provided its thorough equipment. At present the Marine Corps 
enrolls 6,000 men. Gen. Heywood became Brigadier-General in 
March, 1899, and Major-General in July, 1902. On the latter 
occasion a very unusual compliment was paid Gen. Heywood. 



WATERVILLE IN THE WAR. 75 

The Secretary of the Navy, instead of sending the commission 
by an aid, the usual custom, called in person and presented the 
commission with words of high appreciation. 

Charles Leonard Phillips, was a member of the class of 1881 
at Colby University (now Colbv College), and for three years 
took high rank in his class ; at the end of his third year he par- 
ticipated in a competitive examination for entrance to the West 
Point Military Academy and was the successful candidate ; he 
entered the Academy and graduated with his class ; was 
appointed 2nd Lieutenant and has since been promoted ist Lieu- 
tenant and Captain. Colby College conferred upon him the 
degree of A. M. (out of course). 

Otho W. B. Farr, was born February 6, 1871. He entered 
Colby in 1888 and West Point Military Academy in June, 1889. 
He was graduated in 1893 and was assigned to the 2nd Artillery, 
stationed at Fort Preble, Me. Afterward at Fort Warren, Mass., 
Fort Riley, Kan., and Fort Sheridan, 111. He served with light 
battery A, 2nd Artillery, during the Spanish-American War, 
taking part in the battle before Santiago de Cuba. July, 1898. 
Promoted to be ist Lieutenant, March, 1889, and to Captain, July 
I, 1901. Served in Cuba from January, 1899 to January, 1902. 
Capt. Farr is now stationed at Fort Warren, Mass., and is in 
command of the 77th Co. Coast Artillery. 

Alexander Fred. Haniinond Yates, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. 
Yates of this city, was born January 11, 1879. He entered the 
U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in September, 1895, s"c^ was 
graduated, January 28, 1899. ^^ served as ensign on the U. S. 
Ship Detroit during the Spanish-American War, from June ist 
to August 23, 1898. In January, 1899, he was ordered to the 
Asiatic Station, where he has served on the Oregon and Pain- 
panga and has been in command of the Leyte and Arayat until, 
his three years' cruise being completed, he was ordered to the 
United States in the summer of 1902 on a furlough. 



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